It was finally over. The darkness within Jet was destroyed, Eggman’s plans were ruined, and Babylon Garden was waiting for the heroes just outside the city. It was time for the heroes to part ways. Blur gave one last competitive smirk to Jet before leaving with Mach, Blitz, and Kumori. Even though things were settled between the two rivals, Jet felt at a loss for not completing the race. Maybe the next time.“Jet, we have to go.” Wave said. “It would be best if we went to Babylon Garden.”“I guess you’re right.” Jet said.Jet handed Wave the four Arks, including the one he had. Storm grabbed the blue Ark and handed it to Wave. The genius Swallow placed the Ark in a special case that would not activate their powers together. With all said and done, the Babylon Rogues took one last glance at their new friends before turning to leave.“I guess we should be heading home, too.” Blur said to the group.“Maybe we can go on a date.” Kumori said hopefully.“Not a chance!” Mach exclaimed.Blitz laughed at his the 2. Then he suddenly noticed that Mach had remained silent.“What’s up, Mach?” Blitz asked.“Don’t you wonder why the Babylonians sealed that Ark in the Gigan Rocks?” Mach questioned.“Not really.” Blur said carelessly.“Something just doesn’t seem right.” Mach contemplated. “A lightless black that consumes everything, the Wings of the Heavens falling from the sky, and the robot leader exploding without reason. It just doesn’t add up.”“You’re thinking too much.” Kumori stated.Mach continually pondered. Robots don’t explode without reason. As he looked back, Mach realized that it was the same robot they fought continually. But how could that be? And a lightless black. A lightless black...That’s it!“We can’t let those Ark’s reach Babylon Garden!” Mach suddenly yelled.Everyone stared at Mach in surprise until a sudden explosion came from the side of the room. The explosion was created by the robot leader, who had somehow survived. The robot leader suddenly attacked Wave and grabbed the case with the Arks. Before the heroes could reach it, the robot had already taken off and flew towards Babylon Garden.“How is that thing still flying...Eggman!?” Blur growled.“I don’t know?” Eggman said honestly (Who would have thought).“Wave, are you ok?” Jet asked as he helped Wave up.“I’m fine.” Wave said.“This is bad.” Mach said. “If the Babylonian’s couldn’t control the Arks, what makes the robot think it can?”“What do you mean?” Storm asked.“Remember when you used Gravity Dive?” Mach asked. Everyone nodded. “When only one Ark was used, it created a miniature, harmless black hole. When we used two, you saw the results.” Everyone remembered. When Blur and Jet used their Ark’s together, it made a black hole twice as big. “When all have are brought together and used simultaneously, it will create a black hole large enough to swallow the Earth!”In the central shrine of Babylon Garden, the robot leader stood atop a tall pedestal and opened the case. The five Arks started to pulsate and the robot uttered the words that would be the end of the world.“GRAVITY CONTROL!!!”The five stone rings released a large pulse together and a glimmer of light appeared beneath the shrine. Slowly, Babylon Garden began to crumble away. The tracks, the shrine, everything was destroyed. But in this moment of destruction, a bright light could be seen emerging from the rubble. The light created an explosion that destroyed everything within its reach. Blur and the others were luck not to be hit by it. But to their surprise, all inanimate objects began to float.“What is that?” Eggman asked.“This is it. The Wings of the Heavens.” Mach said.Babylon Garden had been replaced by a crystal shrine supported by giant halo. But even its beauty could not mask the danger. Dark clouds began to form above the crystal shrine and several storms started raging around it. The storms started sucking up everything, even our heroes. The heroes were clinging to anything that could save them. Eggman had long escaped after the clouds appeared.“At this rate, the world will be swallowed in less then an hour!” Mach yelled.“Wave, how do we stop this?” Jet questioned.“If we retrieve the Master Ark and reverse its polarity that should stop the black hole!” Wave shouted.“We’ll go on ahead!” Blur shouted.The four hedgehogs jumped onto their Gear and made a quick shot towards the Divine Wings. Not far behind, the Babylon Rogues followed, ready to correct their ancestor’s mistake. The outside of the Wings was amazing, but inside was astounding. Inside was a whole area of technological devices that were clearly not made from Earth. Computers, satellites, even alien video games could be found everywhere. Not even Wing, Eggman and Wave combined could make devices like these.“Whoa, talk about humongous.” Blur said in astonishment as he copied the data with his small hand held computer.“I’ve never seen devices like these.” Mach said, equally astonished.“Did our ancestors make all these?” Storm asked.Everyone was so captivated by the Wings interior, they almost forgot their mission. Realizing they may need help in understanding the Arks powers, Wave began accessing the Wings main computer. The entire database was in a completely different language, but Wave somehow understood it easily. When Wave opened a certain file, something in that file made her gasp in shock.“Guys! Check this out!” Wave called.“What is it?” Kumori asked.“You won’t believe this, but it’s a journal.” Wave said.“A journal?” Jet questioned. “So what?”“So...this journal has entries from all the previous leaders of the Babylon Rogues.” Wave explained.“What?!” Everyone exclaimed.“Well what does it say?” Storm asked.“Ok, he’s the first entry.” Wave said as she began to read the screen.For many years, I watched over my world as its king. But I was oblivious to the truth: darkness descended and came to life. These black creatures, these...heartless were taking over. When I learned of this, a requested my dearest friends to create a way to save us. And thus, the Divine Wings were created. Powered by our sacred artifacts, the Arks of the Cosmos, we were able to escape our world with most of its people. We then decided to settle at a place called Earth. But once we entered the atmosphere, I jettisoned the Arks from the Wings. My people were angered. They did not realize they danger they presented. Together, the Arks could create a lightless black that would consume everything. But my people were corrupted by the Arks and rebelled against me. No longer the king, I lead a new team. A team of outcasts, of rogues. The Babylon Rogues.Theft, First leader of the Babylon Rogues.“Whoa! The first leader was a king.” Storm said.“Then that would make Jet the new king.” Wave said.“Huh?” Jet questioned.“The Leader of the Babylon Rogues is always descended from the previous.” Wave explained. “Jet...you are royal blood.”“Wow.” Jet said stunned.“What does it say next?” Blitz asked.“Here’s an interesting entry.” Wave said.We have received new guests to our home. Babylon Garden was graced by the coming of a royal figure from the kingdom of Arabia: King Erazor. Jet’s beak was hanging open in shock. The King was interested in learning the way of our people, but I knew he was up to something. We Babylon Rogues may be thieves, but we still care for our people. No matter how ungrateful they are. My team and I followed Erazor through the day and saw nothing wrong. But when Mach came, we discovered that the king was trying to sneak of with our people’s technology. Using Babylonian magic, a sealed Erazor away in a book forever. But I feel the seal won’t last.mystik, seventh leader of the Babylon Rogues.“O...k.” Mach said uncomfortably. “Moving on.”“Ok, this is the last entry left.” Wave said.Over the centuried our people have fought many battles and many adversaries. The Echidna Tribe, Erazor’s Legion, and our most devastating battle, Kizun’s Army. As I looked back, I realized they all wanted the same thing: our technology. Recently, our teams scientist has created a new type of transport he calls Extreme Gear. It was modeled after the Arabians carpet to make it inconspicuous. Realizing the danger that it might hold, I sealed it away inside a special room only the royal family knows. To be extra cautious, I battled Erazor once more and trapped him in a shell. Now he serves as the guardian of our treasure. To make sure no one would take it, I will remove the main power source of Babylon Garden: the control box. Without the box, Babylon Garden will fall below the Earth with all of its secrets. We were on our own. Maybe one day our descendents will find this and restore our home to its former glory. Only time will tell.Stolen, thirteenth leader of the Babylon Rogues.“And that’s it.” Wave said. “We all know what happens after that.”“The Babylonians had it rough.” Blur said.“I never thought that our ancestors would hold such secrets.” Jet said. Suddenly, The Wings began to shake. “What was that?”“We forgot the black hole!” Mach yelled. “We only have 30 minutes before the world is sucked up!”“That’s not the only thing you have to worry about.” A new voice entered.All of a sudden, the entire room began to change. The machine-filled room was transformed into a giant track and the ceiling was replaced by a scene of stars above their heads. Just down the track, Kumori spotted the robot leader SCR-HD standing motionlessly.“Look!” Kumori shouted.“All right, you bucket of bolt!” Blitz yelled. “You game is over!”“Oh, but the game has just begun.” The robot leader said.“What do you mean?” Mach asked.“I discovered that the Arks not only control gravity, but also all of reality!” The robot leader stated. “With these I will shape reality to my desire!”“No!” Jet exclaimed.The five Arks swarmed around the robot leader before plunging into its body. The Arks welded themselves to the robot and started to morph. The robots grew to a gigantic size, its legs were replaced by a ball of negative energy, its arms were stretched out, and its head was wide open to reveal its single red eye. The robot leader had transformed into the master core: ABIS“Now I will control the entire universe!” ABIS laughed.“Not if we have anything to say about it!” Blur yelled.“Show me your feeble power.” ABIS challenged.The seven heroes jumped on their Gear and raced down the track towards the mutated machine. Storm went on the attack first. Storm rebounded off a random ramp and thrusted his fist towards the machines eye. But with a simple twitch of its claws, ABIS used gravity to throw Storm away. Just then, Kumori jumped up and off of Storm’s beak. Kumori reeled out her fist and ABIS still needed to recover his gravity power. As an act of defense, ABIS twisted his arm around and blocked Kumori’s attack. Just by flicking his finger, Kumori was thrown back on the track.“Is that really the best you got?” ABIS chuckled. “Not even your sneaking could help, Wave.”“Uh oh.” Wave said from behind ABIS’ back.While Kumori and Storm provided the initial attack, Wave tried to sneak up behind ABIS and unscrew the parts that attached him to the Arks. But unfortunately, ABIS had already thought ahead and sealed the Arks under several layers of metal. ABIS twisted his arm around his back and picked up Wave by her tail feathers. With the flick of his wrist, Wave was thrown clear into the stars. Luckily enough, she landed on Storm...uh...big bones.“This guy is unbelievable.” Blitz said.“Separate attacks won’t work.” Mach concluded. “Let’s try a combined attack.Mach and Blitz pulled their hands together and created a purple ball of energy between them. The two hedgehogs held the attack forward and threw it ABIS. Unfortunately, ABIS used his powers of gravity to push the attack back. The hedgehogs jumped away just in time to avoid it. From out of the smoke, Blur flew towards ABIS with his signature attack in hand.“CHAOS WIND!” Blur yelled. Blur’s attack collided with ABIS’ eye, sending it up in a puff of smoke. “Take that!”“Is that all?” ABIS laughed.Even Blur’s best attack had no effect of the deranged robot. ABIS placed his hands on both sides of Blur to create a barrier around him. Blur tried to escape the barrier when he realized: he was losing air. Blur grabbed his neck and tried to take in as much air as possible. Jet zoomed up to them and saw Blur’s situation.“Don’t worry, I’ll save you!” Jet assured him.Nowing the his power wasn't enough, Jet increased the odds by pulling out his crystall box. Unfortunately, ABIS saw this and knew what he was thinking.“I don’t think so.” ABIS said.ABIS’ eye started to glow. Just then, Jet was lifted off his Gear and left floating in midair. ABIS used his power of gravity to levitate Jet and was now hanging him over the edge of the track. To be extra careful, ABIS formed a tentacle from his dark sphere and grabbed the crystal box from Jet's hand.“JET!” the other heroes yelled as they cam to their rescue.“How annoying.” ABIS said as his eye glowed again. Suddenly, the gravity around the heroes increased 5 times, forcing them to the ground. “Now to end this foolishness. Farewell, Jet the Hawk.”ABIS’ eye glowed once more and the gravity around Jet was increased by 50 times. Jet was freefalling at a speed that seemed inhuman. Jet struggled to break free, but even his will was too weak. This was it.“I guess I deserve this.” Jet thought. “Storm...Wave...Blur...I’m sorry.”Jet’s figure collided with the ground, creating a crater the size of Babylon Garden itself. Though still trying to breath, Blur looked over the edge to gaze down at his friend. Jet was on the ground, half buried in sand. Jet’s body was motionless, his eyes were blank, and his heart had completely stopped.Jet the Hawk was dead.

The black hole ABIS created slowly swallowed Earth into the dark abyss. But even with the worldwide disaster going on, Blur and his friend’s minds were elsewhere. Blur was gasping desperately for air while the others were still pinned down. ABIS looked over the edge of the track to stare down at Jet’s dead body.“Hahaha! That was too easy!” ABIS laughed. “I knew a pathetic pigeon could not compare to my power.”“He...was no...Pigeon.” Blur gasped. “He was...Jet the Hawk. He...was better then...you’ll ever be.”“That’s right!” Storm yelled. “The boss was the best!”“If that’s true, then why is he dead?” ABIS chuckled.“Jet...” Wave sobbed.“What do we do now?” Kumori asked.“Blitz, can you use your powers to escape?” Mach asked.“I already tried.” Blitz groaned. “His gravity is greater than mine.”The others could only watch as ABIS slowly sucked the life out of Blur. Blur tried to stay up, but the lack of air forced him to his knees. ABIS laughed and held Jet’s crystal box as a trophy. All around the world, everyone would gaze at the black hole and started to panic. Wing tried to find a solution. Rock beseeched to the Master Emerald. Even Darkrion tried to stop it, but this was beyond his power. All was lost. Or so they thought.In the outer reaches of space, Jet’s body drifted through space. Jet groaned and woke up to his new surroundings. Jet was startled for a moment. He could remember falling to the Earth and plowing into the ground, but never reaching space. “Am I...dead?” Jet asked.“Not yet, Jet.”Jet turned around and came faced to an old grey eagle with a black flame on his wrist. The eagle wore a Blue cloak, Blue boots, and a Silver band around his head.“Who are you?” Jet asked.“I am Theft, the first leader of the Babylon Rogues.” Theft introduced. “And no, you are not dead. You are merely at a crossroad. It is here where you will decide. Join us above of return home.”“Does it matter?” Jet questioned. “Any minute now, the world will be gone.“If I had that same attitude, I never would have beaten Erazor.”Jet and Theft turned to the newest guest. It was a pink sparrow with a long ponytail and a red flame on her wrist. She wore Black sandals, Black baggy pants, a Blue sash, Black tube top, and the same Red jeweled necklace that Wave wore.“Who are you?” Jet asked.“I am Mystik, seventh leader of the Babylon Rogues.” Mystik introduced. “You may remember me as the one who defeated the powerful Erazor.”“He also might remember that it was you who made Erazor powerful in the first place.”“Cram it, Stolen!” Mystik yelled.The one called Stolen turned out to be a blue hawk with a scar on his right eye and a dark flame on his wrist. Stolen wore a long, sleeveless White trench coat, metal wristbands, and a pair of black boots.“Admit it. It was your fault that Erazor became a genie in the first place.” Stolen smirked.“Shut up?!” Mystik screamed.“Both of you shut it!” Theft shouted fiercely, successfully shutting the two.“Uh...Not to be rude or anything, but why are you here?” Jet asked.“Isn’t it obvious?” Mystik said. “We’re trying to convince you to go back.”“For what?” Jet asked. “Everyone’s going to die anyway.”“Jet, look at us.” Stolen said. “Do you know what the three of us have in common? We all did the right thing.”“He’s right.” Theft said. “I saved my people, Mystik stopped Erazor, and Stolen prevented a war.”“We may be thieves, but we always do what’s right.” Mystik said. “Now it’s your turn.”“But what can I do?” Jet asked.“Think about what you are fighting for.” Stolen said. “Turn around.”Jet did as he was told and looked back. One by one, all of his friends appeared to him. Blur, Wave, Storm looked back at the emerald hawk and smiled.“My friends.” Jet whispered.“They believe in you, Jet and so do we.” Theft said.“You’ve saved the world before and you can do it again.” Mystik assured him.”“The legacy of the Babylon Rogues will always live on.” Stolen said.Theft, Mystik, and Stolen placed their hands atop one another and looked to Jet. The emerald hawk seemed doubtful for a moment. But then Jet eagerly placed his hands atop his ancestors and their hands began to glow.Back at the Divine Wings, Blur had just breathed his last breath. Blur’s mind went blank and collapsed in ABIS’ barrier. ABIS laughed victoriously. Suddenly, he felt a burning sensation. ABIS looked over to see Jet’s crystal box was slowly burning him. ABIS screamed in pain and threw the box over the edge. And without realizing it, he also released Mach and the others from his control. Suddenly, column of light erupted from the Earth and a figure appeared before ABIS. “You thought you could us me by transforming into a monster?!” Super Jet exclaimed“Jet!” Everyone cried.With his ancestor’s words and the power of the crystal box, Jet had become Super Jet.“How is that possible?” ABIS questioned. “No matter, you still cannot defeat me alone.”“Who said I was fighting alone.” Jet smirked.Jet held his crystal box and raised it to the air. The crystal box formed a multi-colored ball inside and shot out seven lights towards ABIS. But to ABIS’ surprise, the lights passed him and went straight to Blur. The seven lights entered through Blur’s heart and created a sudden explosion of light. Blur’s KO’d form was replaced by the powerful Galaxy Blur.“Now that’s what I’m talking about!” Blur cheered. Blur joined Jet in the sky and gave a confident glance to each other. “I like the new look.”“I could say the same.” Jet replied.“What do you say we end this?” Blur said.“Sound’s good to me.” Blur replied.“Just try it.” ABIS challenged. “No color change will save you.”ABIS held out his hand and formed a ball of electricity. He threw the electric ball at the glowing anthro’s, but they disappeared from sight. ABIS was confused. The mutate robot searched down to track to look for them. His search was ended when Blur reappeared and delivered a striking kick to ABIS’ chest. ABIS was thrown back for miles until Jet appeared behind him and kicked him upwards. ABIS regained his balance and growled at the little nuisances.“How is this possible?” ABIS thought. “Those darn pests are more powerful then ever.”“What’s wrong? Scared?” Blur taunted.“Hardly!” ABIS exclaimed. “Allow me to show you the ultimate power!”ABIS raised both of his claws and held them to the air. The Arks of the Cosmos suddenly merged to the top of his chest and released all their power to him. A gigantic ball of black and white particles formed in his hands and formed the ultimate black hole. But even while staring into the face of death, Jet and Blur looked confident.“Is that all?” Jet mocked.“Let’s show him how it’s done.” Blur said.Blur and Jet held their hands forward together and gathered their energy to one spot. Both their hands were enshrouded in an aura of rainbow colors. The final showdown to decide the fate of the world had come. Mach and the others quickly ran for cover, knowing the blast would be a big one. Finally, both sides had released their attacks in unison.“DARK COSMO ATTACK!”“LIGHT WAVE!”ABIS threw the dark sphere forward and the glowing heroes shot a multi-colored blast. The two attacks collided and both seemed at a stalemate. ABIS then noticed the smirks on the hero’s faces and was confused. It was then that he noticed that they were only using one hand each. The two glanced at each other for a moment before throw the remaining hands forward. The additional power pushed the black sphere back to ABIS and blew it in his face.“They did it!” Kumori cheered.“Not yet.” Wave said.Kumori was confused until Wave pointed it out for her. As the smoke cleared, ABIS was found still alive the five Arks were more powerful then ever.“Good attempt.” ABIS laughed. “But not good enough. Now I have absorbed you power and I stronger than you could ever imagine. I am immortal!”Blur growled and clutched his fist in rage. Mach and the others could share in his emotions. But Jet seemed much different than normal. Jet had his eyes closed and appeared to be in a meditative trance. His mind wandered back to the conversation he had with his ancestors and remembered the words that motivated him.“Remember what you’re fighting for.”Suddenly, Jet’s crystal box gave off a visible aura and floated above his head. Jet lifted off the ground and came face-to-face with ABIS. Jet held out his hand at motioned it towards himself.“What are you doing?” ABIS asked.All of a sudden, ABIS felt his power draining away. He looked down to the Arks in his chest and watched as their power was being sucked away. The Arcs powers were sucked into the crystal box released it into the Super hawk. Jet transformed into a full-body black with marking that looked like stars all over. Super Jet had transformed to Shining Jet.“Power lever: illogical! Probability: impossible!” ABIS panicked. “Error! Error!!!”“You wanted to see the power of my ancestors, well here’s your chance!” Jet stated. Jet held the control box forward. “STAR SHOT!”The crystal box unleashed a devastating blast that blasted the insane robot to pieces. Along with it, the Ark of the Cosmos were destroyed forever. Up above, the dark cloud vanished and the black hole had disappeared. With the Arks destroyed, the Divine Wings had also returned to its normal state. Jet and Blur had saved the Earth once again. Jet joined Blur on the ground and both returned to their normal forms.“Hey, Jet.” Blur called.Jet looked over. Blur presented him with his signature smirk and a thumb up. Jet chuckled for a moment before returning the thumb up. Soon, the whole group had joined to congratulate the two. But the celebration was short lived when the Divine Wings began to rumble.“What’s happening?” Storm asked.“Because of the Arks, the Divine Wings are headed beck to their home.” Mach explained.“We better get out of here! Come on, Jet!” Blur called. As the four hedgehogs made their way, they noticed that the three birds were not following. “Jet?”“Sorry, Blur, but this is where our rivalry ends.” Jet said sadly.“What?” Blur questioned.“We’ve decided...that it would be best if we return home.” Wave said. “Our real home.”“So...this is goodbye.” Mach said. “You shall be missed.”“Blur, I expect you to continue my legacy.” Jet said.Blur said nothing as he looked down sadly. Blur glanced at his rival one last time before leaving. The other hedgehogs followed his example. Once they had reached solid ground, the four heroes watched sadly as The Divine Wings reached beyond the clouds. Out in space, The Divine Wings had just passed Mars and it's moons. The babylonains were now forever out of Earth's reach.“Look’s like we’re going home.” Storm said, equally sad. Jet and Wave made no comment. Just then, Storm spotted something shooting across space. “Look, a shooting star! Make a wish!”This had caught Jet and Wave’s attention. The three birds watched as the star burned brightly across the dark reaches of space. They closed their eyes and began to make a wish. Unknown to each other, they all made the same wish.“I wish to go home.” The next day, life had returned to normal at Megalo Station. Mach and the others were riding through the air roads in Mach’s car, which had miraculously survived the explosion. Mach was driving, Blur was in the passenger’s seat, and Blitz and Kumori were in the back with their Gear.“That was some adventure.” Blitz said. “And I can’t believe you guys do this everyday.”“Some adventure.” Mach grumbled. “Because of that disaster, G.U.N. has suspended me for three months.”“What about the car?!” Blur and Blitz exclaimed.“Enjoy your last ride.” Mach said, making the male hedgehogs groan.“I just wonder why that robot wanted the Arks in the first place.” Kumori said.“I found out that they had some type of programming in them.” Mach explained. I think that the robot was only acting on the Arks wishes. It had no idea what it was doing.”“You know, it’s hard to believe that the Babylonians were really aliens.” Blur said.“The Babylonians crash landed on our world centuries ago.” Mach explained. “Their king released the Arks into orbit...”“And the Babylonians waited for them to fall back to Earth.” Kumori concluded. “Every time the saw a shooting star. Maybe that’s why people began wishing on stars.”I just wish Jet didn’t leave.” Blur said sadly.“Why?” Blitz asked. “With him gone, you’re the Master of Extreme Gear now.”“Yeah. But Jet was the only real competition.” Blur said. “Maybe I should just hang up my board.”“Give up that easily, hedgehog?”Blur and the others looked over towards the familiar voice. In a hover car next to them was the Babylon Rogues, returned to Earth. Wave was driving, Storm was in the passenger’s seat, and Jet kicked back in the back seat.“Jet? What are you doing here?” Blur asked. “I thought you were going home.”“I am home.” Jet stated. “Besides...we have a little score to settle.Blur and Jet grinned at one another. The challenge had been thrown down. Jet and Blur quickly reached for their Gear threw them into the air. The rivals jumped on and raced down the track.“Some things never change.” Blitz said.“You say that like it’s a bad thing.” Kumori said.“Believe me, it is.” Mach smirked.“There’s no place like home.” Wave said.“You saw that movie too?” Storm asked happily.Wave banged her head into the steering wheel to stop herself from killing Storm. Blur and Jet swerved past the moving car and turned the corner. Two rivals were now friends. But no matter what, the two are never willing to lose to one another. Life or death, nothing could break the bond they now shared. And it was all thanks to a star and a wish.Meanwhile, out in the desert outside the former Crimson Tower. All seemed calm until a mound of sand burst open. the cause of the sudden burst was none other the Meteor Tech Robot Leader. But because of Jet’s attack, The robot leader was missing both its leg, its left arm, most of its armor, and top right part of its head. The robot crawled out into the sand with its one arm. “How...C-c-could I-I have L-lost.” The robot said; its voice module sparking. “I-It’s i-impossible!”The robot crawled on its chest until its one arm gave out. The robot was now stranded in the middle of nowhere with no chance of survival. Just then, a figure loomed over the defeated robot. It was its creator: Dr. Eggman.“I must say, you are a rotten one.” Eggman said with a smile. “I like that. I may just keep you.” A circuit fizzled out inside the robot. “Hmm. That body is too damaged and all my other robots have been shut down. Perhaps I should reconfigure you. maybe make you a part of my E-Series robots.”“R-r-reconfigure? E-S-series?” The robot questioned before shutting down.Eggman moved closer and grabbed the robot by its head. The large scientist then ripped the robots head clean off and removed the unnecessary circuitry that was hanging loose. He held the robots head high and chuckled evilly.“I shall call you...E-001 Multis.” Eggman said sinisterly.

3 MONTHS AGOUnknown to anyone, an evil plot was unfolding in Kingdom Valley. The scene takes place in the former laboratory of Soleanna that was created by its previous ruler. Just then, the floor began to crack and burst wide open when a razor sharp claw erupted from under the surface. The claw was soon followed by the rest of the body, which was covered in shadows because it was night time. “Finally, after ten years of waiting, my transformation is finally complete. But even with this newfound strength, I am still not powerful enough to defeat those meddlesome hedgehogs, Blur, Mach, and Blitz. Their has to be a way to draw out their true power without being destroyed.” The figure said. The sound of footstep soon reached him and he quickly jumped into the shadows to hide. The newcomer appeared to be a red hedgehog that was lost. “This doesn’t look like the Soleanna Sun Festival.” The hedgehog said. Ok, really lost. “Wait. I remember him. He’s perfect.” The shrouded figure said.---Team Speed--- Three months had past since the whole the Creator incident and Eggman has not been seen anywhere since then. Blur thought things were getting too boring, so he challenged Mach to a race around the world. In a desert in Egypt, Blur ran around a large loop and Mach jumped off a series of rock pillars before landing on the ground. Mach held a small lead ahead of Blur. “What’s wrong? Can’t keep up?” Mach mocked. “I’m just warming up!” Blur said before running faster till he was neck-and-neck with Mach. But floating high above the desert was Blitz, who had been looking for the speedy hedgehogs ever since they passed Beijing. “All right! It’s about time!” Blitz exclaimed before flying down next to them and started running himself. “Yo Blitz! Long time, no see!” Blur shouted. “Guys! Check this out!” Blitz shouted back as he handed Mach a small letter and began to read it.Guess what hedgehogs? I've finally developed the ultimate weapon!In three days, I will conquer the world! Think you can stop me?“Sounds like an invitation to party!” Blur cheered. “What do you think we should do?” Blitz asked. “Well, since Eggman was kind enough to invite us, I say we accept to crash it.” Mach said. “Now that’s what I’m talking about! Yeah, let’s crack this egg wide open! It’s party time!” Blur shouted. With they mission set, Blur, Mach, and Blitz set off to stop Eggman and his new invention.---Team Charm--- Geisy, was at the docks near the ocean, sitting on the beach chair she brought, with Kumori, who was sitting on the edge of the dock. Geisy turned away from her sister and stared at a picture of them and their friends took during the Soleanna Sun Festival. “Oh, I wonder where Blur is.” Geisy said. “Probably with Mach.” Kumori said. Just then, the wind picked up and blew the picture out of Geisy’s hands. “Oh no!” Geisy exclaimed as the picture blew away. Kumori acted fast and jumped up to catch the picture. “Hey! Be careful with this!” Kumori shouted down to Geisy. “Kumori, you can’t swim!” Geisy shouted. “Yeah! So what?!” Kumori shouted back. Geisy only answered by pointing down to the ocean below her.” Uh oh.” Kumori said before she fell.Kumori nearly hit the water until she felt something grab her by her ankle and held her in place. Kumori looked up to find that her savior was Sheila the Hedgehog. Sheila pulled Kumori back up to the dock as Geisy walked up to them. “Sheila what are you doing here?” Geisy asked. “I was hoping I would find Blitz here. But it looks like I was wrong.” Sheila said. “Knowing him, he’s probably with Blur and Mach somewhere.” Kumori said. “Then what are we doing here?” Geisy asked. “Excuse me?” Sheila questioned. “Come again?” Kumori also asked. “We aren’t going to find our loves by standing around and doing nothing. Come on, girls! We’re going on a hedgehog hunt!” Geisy shouted as she raised her fist to add effect. Kumori and Sheila agreed with Geisy and ran off to find their boyfriends.---Team Chaotix Jr--- In the heart of Station Square, one of the many business building held one of the more popular group of detectives, Team Chaotix Jr. Vec was leaning back in his chair, listening to the music in his headphones, while Esper was silently meditating near the door. Esper broke from his trance when a buzzing sound reached his ears. Just then, Glee bursts into the room holding a package, shouting “It’s here!” Unfortunately, Glee was flying too fast to stop and crashed into Vec, sending the package flying into the air. Esper quickly draws a kunai from his cuff and hurled it towards the package, sticking it to the wall by its rope. “What’s wrong with you, you idiot?!” Vec yelled. “It's here! It's here! We've got work!” Glee cheered. "What!" Vec exclaimed in surprise.Just as Glee said, the package opened up and a small red walkie-talkie fell out. The walkie-talkie dropped and bounced off of Vecs head and landed in Esper’s hands. “What is this?” Esper asked, obviously confused at who would send them a walkie-talkie. “I've heard good things about you, and require your detective services! And I can pay handsomely!” the speaker said. Esper looked at his teammates and saw their money sign eyes. “I've got a bad feeling about this!” Esper warned them. “C'mon Esper! You know our fathers’ policy! We never turn down work that pays.” Vec said as he and Glee walked out the door. “Theirs no talking to them.” Esper said before he chased after them.---Team Rock--- The next scene takes place at a mountain region close to Station Square. Just then, Rock burst out of the ground at the foot of one of the mountains using his drills. “Man, who knew it would be so difficult to find a simple gem, I hope Jasmine will like it.” Rock said as he blushed and held an object wrapped in a brown cloth close to his face before putting it away. “Now all I have to do is find Jasmine. Where is she anyway?” Rock asked himself. While he pondered this, the sound of a jet engine soon reached his ears. Rock looked up to see a Black and Green fighter plane flying low to the ground. Rock recognized this as the Hurricane V that Wing created a few months back after he lost the Hurricane IV. Rock also noticed that the Hurricane V was not only flying low, but it was also headed for him. “Hey! Watch out!” Rock yelled, but his voice was not heard and was run over. Uh...Wing, I think we just ran over Rock.” Alexis said from the backseat. “Oh, guess I missed him.” Wing said. “Actually, I think you hit him dead center.” Alexis said.Wing landed the Hurricane V and the two children ran to Rock, who had his face to the ground. “Rock, are you ok?” Wing asked. Wing received his answer when Rock stood up and grabbed Wing by his neck. “Give me one good reason why I shouldn’t beat you to a pulp!!” Rock threatened. “Is this good enough?” Alexis asked as she handed him a red walkie-talkie. Rock released Wing and listen to what it had to say. “Listen well. Eggman has plans to take the Master Emerald.” The speaker said. “What?!” Rock exclaimed. “It is up to you to stop him. Good luck.” The speaker said. “We have to do something before Eggman takes the emerald.” Wing said. “There’s no way he’s taking the Master Emerald while I’m still around! Are ya with me?!” Rock shouted. “Yeah!” Wing and Alexis shouted with Rock---Team Babylon--- Flying in the skies over Splash Canyon was a large airship that could only belong to the Babylon Rogues. Jet was sitting in his chair, with a pile of gold coins on his desk. “Ahh, life doesn’t get any better then this. Got my team, got my Gear, got a pile of stolen gold, and the most beautiful girl in the world.” Jet said as he stared at Wave in the eyes. “Oh, Jet.” Wave said affectionately. The two birds closed their eyes and moved their beak closer to each other. But, once again, their moment was interrupted when a series of loud thuds could be heard out side the door. “HEY, BOSS!!!” Storm screamed like a maniac as he was flung through the doors. Storm’s sudden intrusion surprised Jet and Wave and caused them to fall back in the chair. “I really need to get some locks for that door.” Jet said as he and Wave got back to their feet.Storm rushed over to the desk and started pounding away insanely. “Hey boss, you won’t believe what I found!” Storm shouted. “Calm down, Storm!” Jet shouted back. Storm did as he said. “Now, what’s this all about?” Jet asked. “Check this out.” Storm said as he held a flyer to them. “Let me see that.” Wave demanded as she grabbed it out of the albatross’ hand and read it aloud. “‘Looking for secret technology of the mad scientist Dr. Ivo Robotnik. If any are found, the finder will receive a reward of $100,000.’ It seems to be a want ad by G.U.N.” Wave informed her teammates. “All right, no problem. We just find Eggman, steal some info, and get paid.” Jet said, having his gold daydream again. “Yes, problem. We don’t know where Eggman is.” Wave said. “Then we’ll just wing it. come on.” Jet order as he walked out the door. “Right, boss.” Storm said as he followed. Wave groaned that her and Jet’s evening was ruined, but still followed anyway.---Team Enemy--- In one of Eggman’s many hidden bases, Jasmine dropped down from the ceiling and landed in front of a steel bolted door. Jasmine walked up to the door and found that it required a password to open. “Easy. M-A-R-I-A. Maria.” Jasmine entered the password and the door opened. “I hope Eggman will never learn.” Jasmine said as she entered the hidden room. Jasmine found and pod in the center of the room and walked up the control console, saying “This must be it! I've found Eggman's secret treasure!” Jasmine cheered. Unknown to her, a pair of blue eyes were watching. Jasmine pressed a series of buttons that drained the pod and opened it up. Jasmine watched the pod open with excitement, which disappeared when she saw what was inside. “Who are you!?” Jasmine shouted to creature inside. The creature turned out to be none other then a hedgehog, and believe it or not, it was jac Nexeon Blazestep himself. Jac had awoken and looked to the side when he heard a clanking sound coming from that direction.Just then, A blue, and white robot that looked a lot like that robot from Sonic X issue #24 just with the red areas recolored blue jumped out from a pile of scrap. This robot was the last of Eggman’s E-series robots, E-001 Multis. Multis retracted his sphere shaped hands and replaced them powerful laser guns. Multis fired wildly at Jac, but Jac jumps out of the way and brings Jasmine to the ground with him. “Stay here.” Jac said before jumping to a nearby wall. Multis fires at Jac, but missed when his target moved. Multis continued to shoot at jac, destroying the entire base with it. “Source of power for all Eggman creations must be destroyed.” Multis stated. “What?” Jasmine questioned. Jac stops running as Multis ran out of ammo and changed to Amy's hammer. Jac and Multis charge at each other, ready to kill each other. The fight was halted when Jasmine jumped between them and pushes them away from each other. "Hey! Hold up!” Jasmine shouted.After taking a few minutes to talk, the three finally came to an understanding. “Now I get it... now I know what this is all about. You're mad at Eggman for sealing you in this room before ever using you.” Jasmine said, referring to Multis. “And you... you can hardly remember anything and you think it's Eggman's fault, Am I right?” Jasmine said to Jac. Jac only replied with a small “Yep.” “Then let's get this settled. We can start looking for Eggman together.” Jasmine said as she pulled the two together and pilled their hands together. “Ah yeah, baby! This makes us a TEAM!” Jasmine cheered. Unknown to any of them, a pair of blood red eyes were watching the entire thing. Through the unknown figures eyes, he looked intently at the trio before he, what looked like, scanned them. “Jac Nexeon Blazestep, Jasmine Double Fusen, Eggman Model - 001 codename: Multis. All data...successfully copied.”

Blur, Mach, and Blitz have long left Egypt behind them and were now racing across the beautiful valley known as Seaside Hill. “Are you sure this is the way to Eggman’s base, Blur?” Blitz asked. “I have no clue.” Blur said surprisingly cheerful. “Then what is the point of being here in the first place.” Mach questioned, becoming very irritated by the blue blur. “Hey, chill out. I’m sure we’ll get there sooner or later. Right now, let’s just enjoy the sights and find clues.” Blur said. Mach and Blitz loomed over Blur, ready to kill him in an instant. They were about to attack until three white fighter mechs dropped from the sky and landed in front of the trio. “Not these guys again.” Blitz complained. "let’s just get rid of them.” “Fine with me.” Mach said.The mechs aimed their guns at the hedgehogs and fired, but the trio quickly jumped away to avoid them. Blur was bouncing off the walls, literally, as the mech constantly fired at the blue blur. Blur landed on the ground and curled up into his ball form and started spinning in place. Blur then used his spin dash to bash through the mechs chest armor and destroyed it. Mach was backed into the wall as the second mech moved in closer. The mech aimed its gun at Mach and the hedgehog realized that he was trapped. The mech fired it gun and Mach quickly raised his arms to defend himself. To his surprise, the bullet actually bounced off his power ring and hit the mech in the eye, blinding it. Mach acted fast as he summoned a single energy arrow in his hand. “CHAOS SPEAR!” Mach shouted as he threw the arrow. The chaos attack shot straight through the mechs head, eliminating it. Blitz was faced with the last mech, but saw no problem as he was experienced with this enemy. The mech fired it guns, but Blitz merely used his psychokinetic powers to catch the bullets. “I believe these belong to you.” Blitz said as he rebounded the bullets to completely obliterate the mech."I guess Blur kept us on the right track after all.” Blitz said. “Told ya.” Blur said. “But what Eggman would be doing in a place like this, I have no clue.” Blitz said. “Then I guess it’s up to us to find out. Come on!” Mach ordered. The trio of hedgehog ran down the hill and used a conveniently place speed boost that sent them flying to the section of the area.The extra speed boost had sent the team flying into a beach close by with Blur and Mach landing on their faces in the sand. Blitz was cleaver enough to use his psychokinetic powers to float himself in the air before landing on his feet. Mach and Blur pried their faces out of the sand, spitting out any that might have gotten into their mouths. “That’s a taste that will never leave your mouth.” Blur said with a disgusted look on his face. “Quit your whining.” Mach said. “I am not whining.” Blur retorted. “Uh...guys.” Blitz tried to catch their attention, but it didn’t work. “Yes, you are.” Mach said. “No, I’m not!” Blur yelled. “Guys!” Blitz shouted, but it still didn’t work. “Are too!” Mach shouted. “Are not!” Blur shouted back. “GUYS!!!” Blitz yelled as he grabbed his teammate’s heads and turned them to face the side. The group was now staring at a small mass of white fighter mechs and a few flying mechs.The mechs fired all at once, forcing the heroes back to avoid the shots. Out of nowhere, a red fighter mech appears in front of the group and launches a large missile at the hedgehogs. Seeing as they had nowhere to go, Blitz quickly came to only one possible way of surviving. He though he has never done it before, Blitz used his psychokinetic powers to levitate not only himself, but Blur and Mach as well into the air. “Whoa! I had no idea you could do this, Blitz!” Blur shouted in half surprise and half excitement. “Me...neither.” Blitz said exhaustedly before clutching his throbbing head in pain. “What’s wrong with him?” Blur asked. “He has never used his powers three ways! The strain is becoming too much for his mind to handle! Blitz, put us down quickly!” Mach exclaimed. Blitz did as he was told and floated them down to the ground. Upon reaching the ground, Blitz instantly collapsed, too tired to move. “Sorry guys, but that’s all I can do for now.” Blitz said weakly. “Don’t worry. We can take care of things from here.” Mach said as he and Blur went into their fighting positions to defend the weakened Blitz.The red mech fired another missile and Mach quickly grabbed Blitz to avoid being killed. Mach placed Blitz on the wall close by. “You’ll be safe here.” Mach said before he went to rejoin the battle. When Mach came back, Blur had already taken out a small percentage of the mechs. “There is no way I’m letting him take all the fun.” Mach said. Mach heard the sound of gun rifles being reloaded from above and looked up. Just over his head was ten flying mechs preparing to fire. The flying mechs shot at the ebony hedgehog, but Mach swiftly used his super speed to back up before he was hit. Mach jumped into the air and curled into his ball form to use his homing attack to take out the mechs. Mach uncurled and fell to the ground. But before he could even touch the ground, a missile came out of nowhere and exploded under his feet, sending him fly back ten feet. Mach weakly got to his knees and looked up to see that his attacker was the red mech from earlier. “You know, you’re really starting to get on my nerves.” Mach said before getting back to his feet. The mech once again held out its arm and used another missile. Much to the mechs surprise, Mach made no attempt to move. Instead, the black hedgehog caught the head of the missile with his hand just inches before it reached his face. Mach threw the missile aside and charged at the mech. Mach reeled his fist back and smashed it through the mechs chest armor. He pulled the wires out of the mechs chest and pushed it away to let it fall lifelessly to the ground.Blur jumped from side to side in order to avoid the bullets that came from the mechs that surrounded him. Blur curled into his ball form and bounced like a ball into the air to avoid another onslaught of the bullets. Blur then took the opportunity to use his homing attack to take out another small amount of fighter mechs before uncurling and landing on the ground. The remaining mechs tried to fire their guns when Blur had stopped moving, but the quickly found out that they had run out of ammo from all their wild shooting. While the mechs were busy trying to reload themselves, Blur saw this as an opportunity to create a counter attack. Blur held out his hand and release a small amount of blue chaos energy from it. Blur concentrated the energy to take the form of a sphere. Several clicking sounds were heard from all around, which meant that the mech were finished reloading. As the mechs prepared to fire, Blur threw the sphere on the ground and shouted “CHAOS WIND!” Pressure mounted on the small sphere until it finally burst to create several blades of wind. Blur quickly ducked to make sure he did become like the mech when they were sliced to pieces by wind blades.Mach joined Blur and said “Not bad.” “Should I consider that an insult or a compliment.” Blur joked. “Keep that up and you won’t live to fight Eggman.” Mach said seriously. Just then, another mass of white fighter mechs fell from the sky and aimed their guns in unity. “Don’t these guys ever give up?” Blur complained. The mech readied their guns to fire, but the suddenly, all of the mechs arms were shot into the air. “What the?” Blur questioned. Just then, Blitz jumped in front of his teammates. “Nice work, Blitz.” Blur said. “You haven’t seen anything yet.” Blitz said with a smirk on his face. Blitz waved his hands to summon a screeching sound wave that broke the mechs apart. “Well that was easy.” Blitz said. “Speak for yourself.” Blur said. “Where do we go now?” Blitz asked.Mach ran up to the top of a nearby hill and took a quick scan of the area. Not far away was a large white palace that miraculously floated on top of the ocean up ahead. “Hey guy, check this out!” Mach shouted to the rest of his team. Blur and Blitz quickly joined Mach at the top of the hill and also saw the floating palace. “Wow, there’s something you don’t see everyday." Blitz said in surprise. “I heard about that place. Its supposed to be an ancient mirage palace that appears only appears once every one hundred years.” Mach informed his team. “Wow.” Blitz said in amazement. While Mach and Blitz were amazed by the sight of the palace, Blur was slowly trying to sneak away without them knowing. “Just where do you think you’re going.” Mach said with his back still turned to the purple blur. “Uh...nowhere.” Blur replied nervously. “He’s probably trying to run away because he’s afraid of the water.” Blitz answered. “Really now?” Mach said with an evil smirk. “Uh...bye.” Blur said quickly before trying to run away. Unfortunately, Blitz used his psychokinetic powers to paralyze the poor hedgehog and Mach grabbed him by his leg. “Let’s go guys.” Mach said as they ran to the white palace, dragging Blur's face along the ground behind them. “NOOOOO!” Blur cried to the heavens.Unknown to the hedgehogs, Eggman was sitting in his Eggmobile on top of a large cliff, watching Blur and his friends falling right into his trap. “Hahaha. Those fools are falling for the bait. Hook, line, and sinker!” Eggman shouted with his usual evil laugh. “Man, that laugh can get really annoying, really fast.” An irritated voice came from behind Eggman. Eggman looked back for a moment to see a red hedgehog walk right next to him. “I can see you’re excited to fight those meddlesome hedgehogs.” Eggman said, noticing that his new comrades hand was twitching anxiously. “I don’t care for the other two. It’s the blue one I want.” The red hedgehog said. “Of course. Just as long as you get rid of the other two in the process.” Eggman bargained. “Deal. Watch out Blur, because when I find you...” the red hedgehog pounded his fist into a nearby boulder, which was completely shattered on contact. “I’ll kill you!"

Blur, Mach, and Blitz ran across the many plains of Seaside Hill and were now currently standing in front of the stone door entrance of the white palace. Well, Mach and Blitz were standing anyway. Blitz was trying to pry Blur off a stone pillar nearby. “Come on, Blur.” Blitz said as he pulled with even more force. “NO! I don’t wanna!” Blur cried like a little baby. Mach was watching the entire thing, trying his best to hold in his laughter. “Come on, Blur. I’m sure you can handle a little water. Besides, if worse comes to worse, Blitz and I will help you.” Mach convinced him. Blur took a minute to think about what Mach said and decided to trust him like he always did. Blur finally jumped off the pillar and walked up to the stone entrance with Blitz.“Ok, so how exactly are we going to get inside?” Blitz asked. “Stand back.” Mach warned as he walked up to the entrance. Mach curled up into his ball form and started spinning in place before using his spin dash on the entrance. The sound of Mach making contact with the door was like a buzz saw cutting through wood. Eventually, Mach got tired and uncurled to examine his progress. Even though Mach was the strongest of the trio, his attack only left a large scratch mark on the entrance, leaving no sign of breaking through. “Well, that didn’t work.” Blitz said. “Now what?” Blur asked. Mach didn’t know what to do next, but for some reason was looking between Blur and Blitz intently. Blur and Blitz noticed this. “Uh...What are you looking at, Mach.” Blitz asked nervously. Mach only answered by grabbing the heads of his teammates and forcing them into their ball forms. “Hey, what’s big idea?!” Blur yelled. Mach said nothing as he walked up to the stone entrance and held the two above his head. “This is gonna hurt.” Blitz said before Mach used the two as wrecking balls to break open the entrance.As Mach walked through the broken entrance, he let go of Blur and Blitz, who were dizzily trying to get back to their feet. After several attempts to get back up, stumbling over more times then you can count, before actually succeeding. “W-what was t-that for?” Blur asked shakily. “Relax, just be happy were inside.” Mach said as he walked past him. Mach examined the white palace. The walls were pure white with several ancient inscriptions and pictures marked on them. Thanks to his long studies aboard Mars 8 years ago, Mach was able to read the inscriptions. Many of the inscriptions described and ancient group of guardians that defended the world from an evil Silver hedgehog using the power of the miracle gem. By the look of one of the wall pictures, the miracle gem looked very similar to the Master Emerald. One of the guardians was made of fire, one of wind, one of ice, one was light, one was darkness, and another was made of electricity. But the most shocking discovery was that the last guardian was, what looked to be, Chaos. IThis had been where many years ago Nazo was destroyed by the original guardians. “Mach! Look!” Blur called.Mach looked back at Blur to see him pointing to a pedestal on the far end of the room. On top of this pedestal was the green Chaos emerald. “I got it.” Blitz said as he ran towards to Chaos emerald. “This is too easy.” Mach said suspiciously. As Blitz grabbed the Chaos emerald, a missile came out of nowhere and exploded on contact with the pedestal, which sent Blitz back a couple yards. When Blitz was thrown back, he accidentally dropped the Chaos emerald. Seeing their ally hurt, Blur and Blitz quickly rushed to Blitz’s side. “Blitz, are you ok?” Blur asked. “I’m fine, but what about the Chaos emerald.” Blitz asked. The group looked over to see the Chaos emerald on the ground before it was blocked off by three strange new mechs. One mech was black and looked like shadow, another was blue and looked like sonic, and the last one was grey and looked like silver. Unlike other mechs, they didn’t seem to have any weapons other then razor sharp claws. “That’s different. Looks like Egg-head has finally decided stepping up a little.” Blur said smiling.The three mechs crouched down for a moment before jumping forward at blinding speed that even surprised Blur and Mach. The three mechs each grabbed one of the hedgehogs and jumped away to battle separately. The black mech grabbed Blur, the grey mech grabbed Mach, and the blue mechs grabbed Blitz. The black mech threw Blur across the room to plow Blur into the wall. Blur tried to get up, but the mech appeared out of nowhere and kicked Blur straight up into the air. While Blur was in the air, the mech charged its claws with electricity and threw them that gave them the appearance of Mach’s own Chaos spear. The claws burned through Blur’s fur and flesh, which was only made worse when he fell flat on the cold, hard ground.Mach was smashed into the ground by the grey mech and then was grabbed by his head and had his face dragged across the floor. The grey mech picked up Mach by his head and pushed into the wall, leaving small indent in it. the mech removed its hand from the black hedgehogs head and replaced it on his neck, attempting to suffocate him. “I...don’t...think so.” Mach said gasping. Mach body began to store green Chaos energy within, which showed as his body was glowing bright red. “CHAOS BLAST!!!” Mach shouted. The energy was released from Mach’s body and created a large explosion. Mach had thought he had won, but was found to be wrong when the grey mech was covered by a powerful force field. “You have got to be kidding me.” Mach complained. The grey mech then expanded his force field and threw Mach clear across the room.Blitz have no better luck then his friends as he was never given a chance to counter attack. Every time Blitz would try to use his powers, the blue mech would always appear out of thin air and deliver a solid blow. After much battling and losing the trio of hedgehogs were throw against each other in the center of the room. The three mechs moved in closer and all had seemed hopeless for the heroes. Just then, over ten black balls fell from the ceiling and covered the mechs in pitch black smoke on contact. “What the?” Blur questioned in surprise. The sound of metal being ripped and cut could be heard from within the smoke. After a few second, the smoke disappeared and the mech were found on the ground, totally destroyed. “Uh...what just happened?” Blitz asked. Just then, the green Chaos emerald was thrown into Mach’s hands and the group looked up to see who it was that gave it to them.The rescuer appeared to be a red hedgehog that looked to be 15 years old, he ha long quills that lookked glued together with some bangs jutting from his forehead. The newcomer wore black shoes with two white straps going across them, white gloves, khakis, and a Green shirt with a black kanji symbol on it. The shirt had the kanji symbol for strength. “Who are you?” Mach asked suspiciously. “My name is Rector.” The one called Rector answered. Blur got up to his feet and walked over to Rector with his hand held out to him. “Well, thanks for the help, Rector. I’m Blur.” Blur said. “I know.” Rector said with a murderous glare. Mach saw this and quickly jumped to Blur. “Blur, watch out!” Mach called out. Blur looked back at Mach as Rector lifted his fist and brought it down on the purple hedgehog. Mach was barely able to push Blur away in time as Rector crashed his fist in the ground, creating a small crater. “What’s your deal?!” Blur shouted. “I am here to get revenge for what you did years ago, Blur.” Rector said as he moved into a fighting position. “What does he mean by revenge, Blur?” Blitz asked. “I don’t know. I never met the guy.” Blur answered honestly. “Prepare yourself, coward.” Rector said.Rector charged at the trio of hedgehogs and raised his fist before bringing it crashing down on them. Blur, Mach and Blitz were lucky enough to jump away before becoming a part of the crater that was left from Rector’s assault. Rector looked to Blur and charged at him with murderous instincts. Rector attempted to punch the living daylights out of Blur, but Blur proved to be too fast as he dodged left and right. Blur soon found himself backed it a wall with no chance of escaping. Rector was about to sent the finishing blow until he felt his arm being held back by an unknown force. It turned out that Blitz was using his ice powers to hold Rector back. Blitz then grabbed hold of Rector and flung him to the other side. Unfortunately, Rector quickly recovered and bounced off the wall towards Blitz to land a blow to the head that knocked him out cold.Once Rector landed on his feet, he soon found himself facing off against Mach. “I have been watching you, studying your abilities. It seems that that you use the ancient fighting style know as Taijutsu.” Mach said. “Very clever. You’re absolutely right. But that’s not all that I know.” Rector said with a smirk. Mach charged at Rector and gave a low kick, knowing that Taijutsu could not be performed at a small level. But, to Mach’s surprise, Rector pushed the kick away and jabbed his fingers into both of Mach’s shoulders, pushing him away a little. Mach prepared to attack again, but found out that he couldn’t move his arms. “What the?” Mach said in surprise. “It’s called the Ninjutsu. I learned it from a family in a small village. Maybe I should have told you, but I know seven different styles of martial arts Taijutsu, Genjutsu, Ninjutsu, Karate, Kung Fu, Bak Choy, and Tai Chi. You can’t win.” Rector said. Mach knew that without his arms, there was no way of beating Rector.Blur saw how easily defeated his friends were and thought he didn’t stand a chance against Rector. Rector moved closer to Blur and picked him up by his shoulders so that they stood at equal eye level. “After three years, I will finally be able to pay you back for what you did.” Rector said as he reeled his fist back. “But what did I do to you anyway?” Blur asked, hoping to buy enough time to create his signature technique. “You don’t remember? You kidnapped my little sister!” Rector shouted with anger. “Huh?” Blur said confused. “Maybe this might help jog your memory. My full name is Rector Knockout Marina.” Rector revealed his whole name. Blur instantly recognized that name the second he heard it. “Geisy.” Blur said in realization. “Exactly. You kidnapped her three years ago! I have been training everyday since then and now you’ll finally pay for what you did!” Rector yelled. “But it wasn’t me! I swear!” Blur yelled. “Shut up! Time to die!” Rector yelled as he threw his fist at Blur. Luckily, the conversation gave him enough time to gather the energy he needed. “CHAOS WIND!” Blur shouted as he plunged his signature attack into Rector’s chest, which sent him flying through the wall on the other side.Rector was greatly weakened by the sudden attack, but refused to give in until he had finish Blur once and for all. Rector weakly pulled himself through the hole, only to find that Mach and Blitz were healed and standing with Blur. Rector knew that we was too weak to fight all of them and decided it was the best time to retreat. “This isn’t over, Blur.” Rector said as he pulled out three black balls. Rector threw the ball at the ground to create a cover of smoke. When the smoke disappeared, Rector was gone. “Who was that guy?” Blitz asked. “Apparently that was Geisy’s older brother. He was much stronger then I expected.” Mach commented. “But what did he want with Blur?” Blitz asked. “He thinks I’m the one who kidnapped Geisy three years ago.” Blur said. “Then if it wasn’t you, who was it?” Mach asked. “Metal Sonic, Eggman tried to kidnap the children of my father's friends when he returned knowing they were the planet's last hope, before he got away I stopped him.” Blur asked. Unknown to any of the hedgehogs, a pair of blood red eyes had been watching the entire battle as they scanned the heroes. “Blur Journey Blazer, Blitz Takeshi Blazer, Mach Speed Blazer. All data...successfully copied.”

Geisy, Sheila, and Kumori had left the calm and peaceful shores and were now standing in the heart of the loud and busy city of Grand Metropolis. “This place is big and, by the looks of it, Eggman’s mechs have total control of the city. Geisy, are you sure that Blur is here?” Sheila asked. “No doubt about it. My heart is never wrong!” Geisy shouted in joy. Sheila stared at Geisy for a moment before giving Kumori a look the clearly said ‘is she crazy?’ “Sorry, Sheila, but I have to agree with Geisy. After all, she’s never been wrong before.” Kumori said. “All right, let’s go get those hedgehogs!” Geisy shouted as she walked ahead of the group. Unfortunately, Geisy stepped on a strange blue walkway and was hurtled forward. A loud crash was heard when Geisy was throw a pile of empty garbage cans. “Well, at least it wasn’t us.” Kumori said. Geisy pushed herself out of the trash pile and was now covered from head to toe in trash. “AAH!!!” Geisy screamed, not in embarrassment, but in furious anger.Just then, Sheila and Kumori came down the blue walkway, but moved away to the wall as quickly as possible, fearing what Geisy might do to them if she saw them. While Geisy was throwing her usual temper tantrum, Sheila and Kumori were trying to find a way to activate the next walkway that had suddenly stopped working. “What do you think is wrong with it?” Sheila asked Kumori. Kumori stood on her knees to examine the nonfunctional walkway. “My guess is that the power has been cut off by a nearby power source.” Kumori explained. “So where exactly are we supposed to find this power source?” Geisy asked after cleaning herself off. Just then, a flying mech swooped down in front of the three and attempted to shoot them, but it was instantly crushed by Geisy. “Don’t you know it’s rude to interrupt people when they’re talking?!” Geisy exclaimed as she crushed the poor mech. “Is she always like this?” Sheila asked. “Nah, sometimes she’s angry.” Kumori said coolly. “That’ll show them.” Geisy said. Just then, several other flying mechs and a few white fighter mechs dropped down in front of the girls. “Finally, some excitement.” Kumori said as she cracked her knuckles.All the mechs locked their guns in unity and fired all at once. The girls quickly jumped up or to the side to avoid the bullets. While in the air, Kumori landed on top of one of the mechs and ripped its head armor off. “What do you say we go for a little joy ride?” Kumori said as she started hotwiring the mech. The mechs suddenly changed its direction and began firing on it allies. After shooting down every last flying mech, Kumori brought her fist down to crash through the mech head before jumping off as it exploded. Back on the ground, Sheila was currently jumping from mech to mech, freezing their heads off with her icekinetic powers as she went. When Sheila landed back on her feet, she gave one a slight tap and watched them fall like dominoes. “That was too easy.” Sheila said. Just then, a loud thud came from behind Sheila. Sheila looked up to see a giant mech looming over her. “Like I said, too easy.” Sheila said. The giant mech raised its steel ball fist and brought it down on the her, but Sheila got lucky as Geisy quickly pushed her away. “Don’t worry, leave him to me.” Geisy said. The giant mech then threw its ball fist and Geisy swung her fist to rebound it towards the mech. The initial contact of the ball sent the mech flying and the crowd went wild. Which was strange since there was no crowd.“Where did that come from?” Kumori asked about the imaginary crowd. “We live in a strange and unusual world. It’s to be expected.” Sheila said. Just then, the blue walkway had reactivated. “I guess those mechs were the ones who were holding back the power flow.” Kumori said. “Well, we better hurry before we miss the boys.” Sheila said as she stepped on the moving walkway. Kumori was about to join her until she felt an extra weight being placed on her back. Kumori looked behind her and saw Geisy sitting on her back. “What do you think you are doing?! Get off!” Kumori yelled. “No way. After what happened last time I’m not going to do it again.” Geisy said stubbornly. Kumori knew there was no talking to a stubborn Geisy and trudged on to the walkway.The walkway had led the girls inside a large power plant that most likely powered the entire city and Eggman’s mechs. They could tell it was owned by Eggman because of the many Eggman faces on the walls. “This guy is so full of himself.” Kumori said, relieved to finally have Geisy off her back. Sheila then caught sight of the blue chaos emerald floating in midair in the center of the room. When Sheila grabbed the chaos emerald the floor suddenly began to shake and started moving upwards. “Do you ever have the feeling you’ve just walked into a trap?” Geisy asked her teammates. “That’s because you did.” A loud booming voice echoed through the plant. “Who there?” Sheila questioned. “I have been waiting for you. Especially you, Geisy.” The voice said. “Me? Why me?” Geisy asked. “Now I can take my revenge for what you and Blur did to me years ago.” The voice said. When the floor finally stopped at the top of the plant, the three girls found themselves surrounded by three strange mechs. Unlike the mechs they have seen before, these mechs had no weapons other then their claws and were colored differently then other mechs. One mech was pink and looked like amy, another was purple and looked like blaze, and the last one was black and looked like Katie. “Why do we never get a break?” Kumori asked herself.The three mechs suddenly jumped and knocked the three girls away from each other to fight on their own. Geisy was left to face the purple mech. “I’m gonna turn you into scrap!” Geisy proclaimed, but the mech remained unaffected by it. Geisy charged at the purple mech, but the mech merely held up its claw to catch her foot. “Fiddlesticks.” Geisy commented. Then the mech raised its other claw and watched as it suddenly caught fire. The purple mech swiped its claws at Geisy, but the red hedgehog quickly ducked out of the way and watched the mech scar the steel wall. The purple mech charged at Geisy with the flaming hand and bashed her across the head to send her through the steel wall into another room.Kumori was left to face the pink mech, which seemed pretty fast as it nearly sliced through Kumori with its razor claws. Kumori was jumping side to side as the pink mech came closer and closer, not letting up its assault. “Ok, so this might be a bit of a problem.” Kumori thought. When the pink mech tried to swing its claw downward, Kumori swiftly flipped backwards to land on the wall. Kumori pushed as much of her strength to her legs and bounced off towards the pink mech. “Gotcha now!” Kumori exclaimed. The pink mech had its claw stuck in the ground from its last attack and looked up to see Kumori headed right for it. The pink mech then suddenly held a metal pole that oddly changed into a metal hammer. “Holy Conolli.” Kumori commented. The pink mech reeled the hammer back and then swung at Kumori, delivering a direct blow to her stomache. The blow flung the black hedgehog straight through the same hole that Geisy was thrown through.Sheila was finally left to fight the black mech, which made no move to attack. The black just stood there, waiting for something to happen. Sheila stared at the black mech, wondering what it was planning. “This is strange. Usually Eggman’s mechs just attack without hesitation. But this...this one looks like its...waiting. I better be careful.” Sheila thought. Sheila froze her hands with her icekinetic powers and charged at the black mech. The black mech finally moved into a fighting position as Sheila came closer. The mech threw a punch, but Sheila swiftly jumped over and clawed the mech in the back. But when Sheila touched the ground, the black mech quickly turned around and sent a sharp kick into Sheila’s back. Sheila was tossed across the room, but the black mech appeared out of nowhere and delivered a strong punch to Sheila’s stomach. The initial attack sent Sheila flying across the wall and through the same hole that Geisy and Kumori were flung through.Geisy, Kumori, and Sheila were lying on the ground before slowly getting back to their feet, stumbling over a few seconds before. Geisy and Kumori were having even more difficulty then usual because the atmosphere in the room was blazing hot. Of course Sheila, who wasn’t affected by the intense heat, looked around the room for the source of the unusual heat. Sheila looked over the guard rail to see a large vat of molten lava just a few yards below them. “I can’t go on.” Geisy said as she collapsed from the heat. “I’m finished.” Kumori said, who also collapsed from the heat. Sheila ran to her teammates' sides and picked them up quickly just as the three mechs came crashing through the steel wall. Sheila backed up to the guard rail, realizing that she was now trapped. “There has got to be a way out.” Sheila said. The three mechs charged, but Sheila acted quickly by jumping over the guard rail.The three mechs looked over the guard rail to watch the three girls fall to their deaths, but they weren’t falling at all. In fact, Geisy, Kumori and Sheila had completely disappeared. The three mechs scanned the area until they felt the steel platform under them began to break away. It had become clear that Sheila had safely landed on a platform before them and was now breaking the one the mechs were standing on by freezing it using her icekinetic powers to make it to heavy. Finally, the platform became to unstable and the mechs slipped down into the vat of lava. “That should take care of them.” Sheila said proudly as she picked up her teammates to drag them off to safety. Unfortunately, when the mechs fell into the lava, their bodies exploded to create an eruption in the lava. Sheila was planning to run away as fast as she could, but then came up with another idea. “I just hope this works.” Sheila thought. Sheila grabbed her friends tightly to make sure they were secure before jumping off the platform into the lava eruption. Sheila acted fast by cover her feet in ice with her icekinetic powers and stepped on the lava making the area she was standing at harden into rock to ride it up to the top.The lava eruption crashed through the top of the power plant, sending Sheila, Geisy, and Kumori flying halfway across the city. There was good and bad parts during their flight. The good part was that their landing was softened. The bad part was that they landed in a dumpster filled with...month old prune juice and vomet, except for Geisy who landed on the the wall. “I didn’t think this day could get away worse.” Kumori said, who was covered in garbage. “After all this, we still haven’t found any clues on where the guys are.” Sheila said as she removed a banana peel from the top of her head. “That Rector sure was something else.” A familiar voice came from down the alley. The girls then saw Blur, Mach, and Blitz pass by. “Who ever he was, he was either the strongest or the second strongest opponent I’ve ever faced.” Blitz said. “It would be best to keep a watchful eye out for him.” Mach said. “Finally, we found them. Let’s go.” Geisy said as the trio of girls chased after their true love ones.

Blur, Mach, and Blitz were walking peacefully through the city until. “Gotcha now Blur!” A familiar female voice came from behind. “Please don’t be who I think it is at this moment.” Blur prayed to God. The trio of hedgehogs turned around to see Geisy, Kumori, and Sheila standing only a few feet from them. “Oh fish paste.” Blur said. “Ok, what’s going on? Why are you girls here?” Mach questioned. “Well you left us all suddenly a while ago.” Geisy said. “Wha!? Oh fudge!” Blur exclaimed. “I’m sure I can change your mind about leaving.” Geisy smirked. Blur began to sweat. “Uh...maybe we can work something out?” Blur tried to bargain. “Nope.” Geisy said as she charged at Blur. Blur jumped back as Geisy brought her fist down on him. Blur instantly started to run away, but Geisy was still able to keep up.“Looks like they’ll be needing counseling.” Mach joked as he watched Geisy chase Blur all around the city. Mach then heard a large object falling from the sky and looked up to see a massive steel crate. Mach swiftly moves to the side before the crate was able to hit him. “Where did that come from?” Mach questioned. Mach then narrowly dodged a metal pole that was aimed at his head and looked over to see who it was that was throw these objects at him. It was Kumori and she looked really angry. “Uh...is there a problem?” Mach questioned Kumori’s anger. “Do you know what today is?” Kumori asked, trying to suppress her anger. Mach had no clue what she was talking about, so Kumori reminded him. “Today was the day you were supposed to take me on a date!!!” Kumori yelled with great anger. Mach was stumped at Kumori’s meaning until he remembered his promise last week.---Flashback--- Mach peacefully lying under the shade of a lone tree, watching the clouds as they passed by. Since Eggman had not attack since the whole Babylon Garden incident, Mach took his time to enjoy the temporary peace. But Mach wasn’t alone. Earlier, Kumori came to join him. “You know, Mach. Since we have nothing better to do maybe we could do something together.” Kumori said. “Like a date?” Mach was not easily convinced. “Come on, Eggman hasn’t attacked in months. I promise this is only a one time thing.” Kumori said. “Alright, fine. We’ll go on a date next week.” Mach said. Kumori jumped for joy at Mach’s answer and gave him a bone breaking hug. “What have I gotten myself into?” Mach asked himself.---End of Flashback---“Oh boy.” Mach said, starting to panic. Kumori then picked up another large steel crate in a rage of blind fury and threw it at Mach. Mach quickly jumped to the side to dodge the steel crate. Just then, Kumori tackled Mach to the ground and they both fought for dominance. Blitz shook his head at his friend’s antics. “They never learn, do they?” Blitz said. Sheila then walks over to stand next to him. “Do you think we should help them?” Blitz asked. “Nah. Besides, you have your own problems to handle.” Sheila said. “Like what?” Blitz asked. “Like me.” Sheila answered. “Huh?” Blitz questioned before getting kicked to a nearby wall. “YOU HIT ME!” Blitz shouted in shock. “I’m not going to let them have all the fun.” Sheila said as she moved into a fighting position. “Ok, but just because I love you doesn’t mean I’m gonna go easy on you.” Blitz said as he got back to his feet. “Funny, I was about to say the same thing.” Sheila said.Blur was jumping off the walls of various building in order to avoid a painful session with Geisy. "Just give it up, Blur.” Geisy said. “Forget it, Geisy. There is no way I’m losing to you.” Blur said sternly. Geisy then winds up for her spin dash and Blur thought enough was enough. Blur jumped into the air and curled up into his ball form to use his homing attack. Blur wasn’t actually aiming for Geisy herself, but instead, hit Geisy on her wrists to force her out of her spin dash. Geisy had no way of fighting. “Looks like its over, Geisy.” Blur said proudly. Don’t be too sure.” Geisy said with a smirk, which confused Blur. Then, to Blur’s surprise, Geisy curled up into her ball form and started spinning in place. Geisy then used her own homing attack, but Blur quickly jumped out of the way. “Since when can Geisy do that? I better stay on my toes.” Blur told himself.Mach and Kumori were tumbling on the street, neither letting up anytime. Kumori, in her anger, jumped off of Mach and kicked towards his head. Unfortunately for her, Mach caught her foot and flung her across the street and into an empty telephone booth. Mach got back to his feet as Kumori walked out of the phone booth. Kumori then pried the telephone booth out of the ground and lifted it over her head. “I had no idea she was that strong when she’s angry.” Mach said, obviously impressed by Kumori’s strength. Kumori flung the telephone booth at Mach, who made no effort to move. Just then, three yellow arrows of energy formed around him as he called out “CHAOS SPEAR!” The chaos spear left Mach’s side and hurtled towards the booth to destroy it. “I can tell, this is far from over.” Mach said as he and Kumori were locked in a staredown.Blitz used his psychokinetic powers to levitate himself three feet off the ground while Sheila froze her hands and feet with her icekinetic powers. “You know, I just realized something. For the seven years we have been friends, we have never actually tested each others abilities.” Blitz said. “Well, there’s always a first time for everything.” Sheila said. Blitz used his pyrokinetic powers to create 20 fireballs and hurtled them towards Sheila. Sheila used her frozen hands to break through them. Sheila jumped into the air and started twirling around to create a tornado of ice that headed for Blitz. Blitz acted fast by using his energy powers to create a force field. The force field stopped Sheila’s attack and pushed her back a few feet. “Not bad.” Sheila complimented. “Same to you.” Blitz returned the compliment. “Don’t get too relaxed. This fight isn’t over yet.” Sheila said.Back in the area Blur and Geisy were fighting; a purple blur and a red blur were clashing and bouncing off each other in the air. It was Blur and Geisy, in their ball forms, using their homing attack to bounce off the buildings and rebound themselves. After one last homing attack, Blur and Geisy uncurled to land back on the ground. “Blur, make this easy on yourself and give up.” Geisy said. “No way! That’s never gonna happen!” Blur exclaimed. Realizing that she couldn’t beat him in speed, Geisy decided to pull out her secret weapon. Geisy fell to her knees and started crying, causing Blur to panic. “Why I am never good enough for you Blur?!” Geisy cried. “It's nothing like that Geisy.” Blur stuttered as he ran to her side. “Then you’ll go out on a date with me?” Geisy slowly calmed down. “S-sure.” Blur said uneasily while waving a white flag in defeat. “YAY!” Geisy screamed as she brought Blur into a bone breaking hug. “Some other time. See ya.” Blur said before breaking out of the hug and ran away.Mach and Blitz were busy fighting off Kumori and Sheila until Blur ran past them at a blinding speed. While Kumori was distracted by Blur’s escape, Mach took the opportunity. “CHAOS CONTROL!” Mach called out and vanished into thin air. “You get back here, Mach! MACH!!” Kumori yelled to the sky. Seeing that his teammates were retreating, Blitz decided that it was time for him to leave as well. “Sorry, but I have to go catch my teammates.” Blitz told Sheila. “I understand.” Sheila said. Sheila gave Blitz a small kiss before watching him fly away to chase after Blur and Mach. “Wow, you sure are lucky, Sheila.” Geisy said as she joined her friends. “I wish Mach would act more like Blitz.” Kumori said. Sheila smiled proudly at the compliments she was receiving. Unknown to any of them, a shrouded figure was watching the battle from the top of the former power plant. The figure then scanned Team Rose with its blood red eyes. “Geisy Sol Marina, Kumori May Marina, Sheila the Hedgehog. All data...successfully copied.

Jasmine had left Eggman’s base way behind and was now currently flying over the high towers in Grand Metropolis. “Wow, Eggman has really gone all out. The entire city is swarming in mechs. Are you sure you guys will make it ok?” Jasmine asked her comrades over the communicator. “I have no problems here. The sewer is complete clear of obstacles.” Jac said over the communicator. “Ok...eww, eww, EWW!” Jasmine shuddered. “Primary enemies have been eliminated. Moving to current rendezvous point.” Multis stated over the communicator. “Right. I’ll see you guys there.” Jasmine said as she cut off her communicator. Jasmine continued to fly high above the city until she swooped down to land at one of the city plazas. Just as she landed, a flash of light appeared and and out of it came Jac.“It about time you got here.” Jac said. “Just be glad I’m here anyway.” Jasmine said. “I’m not.” Jac said as he turned away from her. Jasmine got angerier and raised her fist to beat it across Jac’ head. “You! Why I oughta!” Jac shouted as he raised his fists to her. The two were ready to kill each other until a series of fire balls passed between them. Jac and Jasmine looked to the side to see Multis as he change from his guns to his claws. “So did you guys find anything?” Jasmine asked them. “Well, I captured a mech earlier and was about to gather information from it until someone came up and destroyed it.” Jac said as he looked towards Multis. “All Eggman creations must be destroyed.” Multis roared. Just then, Jasmine’s highly sensitive ears picked an unusual conversation from the other side of the plaza. “...And the treasure’s ours.” “Hey, someone else is trying to take my treasure. We have to stop them.” Jasmine said. “Why?” Jac questioned. “Because I said so!” Jasmine exclaimed as she dragged the two to the source of the voice she heard.Jet, Wave, and Storm were walking around the plaza, minding their own business, until. “Hey, who are those creeps over there.” A voice could barely be heard from behind. Jet instantly stopped at the sound of the voice. “What’s wrong, boss?” Storm asked. “And you are?” Jet asked as he turned around to face Jac, Jasmine, and Multis. “Just what do you think you are doing here?” Jasmine questioned. “Who’s the broad?” Storm asked, receiving a slap in the back of the head from Wave. “You guys don’t fool me! I know your after Eggman’s treasure! Better say out of my way!” Jasmine shouted. “Did she say treasure?” Storm asked his teammates. “She did say treasure.” Wave answered. “Huddle.” Jet ordered for the trio of birds huddled together. “Did you hear that? Eggman has treasure.” Storm said excitingly. “Looks like the doctor has been holding out on us.” Wave said. “This is perfect. Not only will we get paid, but we’ll also get some free loot.” Jet said greedily.While the birds were locked in their conversation, it had become obvious to Team Dark that they had no idea about the treasure until now “Way to go, big mouth.” Jac said sarcastically. “Hey, I heard them talking about treasure and I thought they were after my treasure.” Jasmine said. “Whatever. So, who are these nitwits anyway?” Jac asked. “Data files show that they are the Babylon Rogues, world renouned extreme gear riders.” Multis informed them. “Oh, no. Not them.” Jasmine complained. “What? Who are they?” Jac asked. “The Babylon Rogues are also a gang of world famous thieves.” Jasmine informed him. “Then it looks like you four have something in common. I wish someone here was from another dimension.” Jac said. “Hey! I’m recovery specialist. You pin head” Jasmine stated. “Then why are you trying to stealing treasure?” Jac questioned. Jasmine was about to make a comeback until Team Babylon addressed them. “Hey! Since you seem to think that Eggman has hidden treasure, what do you say we work together and split the profit, 50-50?” Jet bargained. “Forget it. The treasure’s all mine.” Jasmine said. “Alright then, we’ll have to do this the old fashion way.” Jet said as he pulled out his fans. “Prepare yourselves.” Jac warned his teammates. Things were about to get messy.Jet rushed forward ahead of his team while Jac charged at him. Jac lifted his fists and brought them down on Jet, but the emerald bird blocked the attack with the metal of his fans. “You’re quite strong.” Jac complimented. You’re not bad yourself.” Jet returned the compliment as he pushed away from Jac. Jet then waved his fans to form a miniature tornado that suck Jac clear up. “Hope you enjoy your trip.” Jet mocked. In the midst of the tornado, Jac teleported out of the tornado’s mouth. Once in the air, Jac dived at Jet. Since the sun was blinding Jet, he couldn’t see where Jac was coming from. He just stood their like a sitting duck until he remember the gold ring on his finger (The one he found after beating Erazor). “That’s it!” Jet exclaimed as he held the ring in the air. Jac was only inches from Jet and prepared to cut him open until. “TIME BREAK!” Jet shouted and vanished just as Jac brought his leg down. “What? Where’d he go?” Jac asked as he searched the area for the emerald bird. “Looking for me?” a voice came from behind Jac. Jac looked back, only to be hit in the face by a feathered fan. Jac was thrown into a pile of garbage cans and stared angrily at Jet. “You are so dead!” Jac exclaimed, but soon questioned why he couldn’t use his full power.Wave and Jasmine circled around each other, locked in a traditional staredown. “Why don't you save yourself the trouble and give up now, hog-brain.” Wave mocked. “Not a chance.” Jasmine replied. “Have it your way then.” Wave said as she pulled out her huge wrench. “Just what I need.” Jasmine said sarcastically. Wave charged at Jasmine and swung her wrench downwards on her, but the hedgehog quickly activated her jet pack to avoid the attack. “My turn!” Jasmine stated. Jasmine dived downwards towards Wave, spinning at a rapid pace. “SCREW KICK!” Jasmine called out her signature technique. Wave noticed that Jasmine was moving too fast for her to dodge, which let only one option for her. Wave reeled her wrench back, closed her eyes, swung her wrench, and prayed to god that she didn’t miss. Lucky for her, she didn’t. Just as Jasmine’s foot was a few feet away, the wrench came from nowhere and bounced the attack away. “Ok, so this is going to be a little difficult then I thought.” Jasmine said.Storm was facing off against Multis, which really seemed unfair...to Multis. “I’m gonna turn you into a pile of scrape metal!” Storm proclaimed. Multis seemed to be unaffected by Storm’s threat. “Access to data files has deemed Storm the Albatross not a threat to primary mission sue to being big boned.” Multis stated. “Not a threat! I’ll show you who's not a threat!” Storm shouted as the charged at the robot with his fists held high. Multis had no effort to avoid the attack, but instead, held his arm out and opened the sides to reveal a series of missiles. Storm stopped in his tracks at the sight of the missiles and said “uh oh.” Multis unleashed a barrage of missile, which Storm quickly jumped behind a pile of steel crates to avoid. Multis slowly walked over to the pile of crates and flung them away to reveal that Storm was no longer there. The next second, a pair of strong, muscular arms wrapped around Multis’s head in an attempted headlock. “Gotcha now.” Storm said. Multis completely turned his head around to face Storm. Multis then reversed his arms to grab Storm from behind. He then flung Storm over his head and onto the ground. Storm then punches Multis in the face before getting back to his feet. “Alright, get ready for round 2.” Storm said.“TIME BREAK!” Jet shouted as time froze once again. Jac was frozen right in front of him and Jet took the opportunity to deliver a mighty kick to the back of Jac’s head. Jac slowly picked himself up off the ground, very weak from Jet using his time break over and over again. “Listen, why don’t you make it easy on yourself and give up.” Jet said. “Never, especially not when I’m about to win.” Jac said. “Huh?” Jet questioned. Jac pointing down with one of his hands, indicating that he wanted Jet to look down. The instant Jet looked down, he found a strong wave of Nexus energy uppercut him in the beak. While Jet was still in midair, Jac used Nexus crest on Jet. “Going down.” Jac said as he forced Jet down into the ground, creating a small crater in the ground.Wave and Storm quickly noticed Jet’s injury and left their fights to help him. “Boss!” Storm yelled as he fell to Jet’s side with Wave. “Jet, are you ok?” Wave asked in concern as she lifted his head into her arms. Jet slowly tried to lift himself back as he said “I’m fine. I just gotta-ahh!” Jet fell back down, holding his shoulder. It had seemed that the attack had injured his shoulder blade, meaning he couldn’t fight anymore. “We have to get him out of here. Storm, help him!” Wave ordered. Storm picked up the small bird in his hands and started to run away behind Wave. “Looks like we have some competition.” Jac said. “There is no way those bird brains are gonna steal my treasure.” Jasmine stated. “First, we must locate Eggman.” Multis stated. “Then I suggest we get moving.” Jac said as he started to walk away with the rest of his team. Unknown to the two teams, a familiar red hedgehog was watching them before disappearing into the shadows.

Esper was wandering aimlessly around the huge city of Grand Metropolis, searching for Vec, who was searching for Glee, who had ran off...again. Originally, they were assigned to set free all the captured Chao in the city by their employer and they have so far, but now Glee was running off to who knows where. “Why do I even work with those guys? Esper asked himself. “As usual, Glee has run off and Vec is out chasing him. He doesn’t really act like much of a leader. Unless I take charge, nothing ever gets done right.” Esper said to himself. Just then, a familiar, annoying buzz sound reached his ears and knew that it could only be one person. “Glee.” Esper said. Just as he said, Glee flew by, bring chased behind by Vec. “Get back here so I can kill ya!” Vec demanded. “No!” Glee yelled. Esper knew this would go on forever unless he did something about. Esper formed a hand sign and the next minute, he was invisible.Glee was still flying away from the enraged Vec, laughing at his expression, until he felt himself hit something solid. Glee jumped back for a moment to see that nothing was there. “What the?” Glee questioned. Just then, Glee felt himself being lifted into the air by his wings. Just as Glee was about to ask what was going on, Esper decided to make himself visible to the hyperactive bee. “Hey! Let me down, Esper!” Glee demanded, but was unheard. “Good work, Esper. Now I can pound the little runt.” Vec said as he tried to reach for Glee, but Esper pulled him away from the large crocodile’s reach. “Hold on. I think it would be a good idea to find out what he’s found first.” Esper suggested. “That idiot doesn’t know anything.” Vec said. “I do too! And you won’t believe who I found.” Glee said. “Who?” Esper asked. “Rock!” Glee cheered. “Rock? I haven’t seen him since I joined the team.” Esper said. “Hey! Maybe we could convince him to join the team again.” Vec thought out loud. “I don’t think that would be a...” Esper tried to say, but they weren’t listening. “Yeah! Let’s go!” Glee cheered and flew off behind Vec. “I need a new friend.” Esper said to himself before chasing after his teammates.Rock, Wing, and Alexis were wandering around the city, trying their best to avoid the mechs that infested the city. Well, Wing and Alexis were anyway. Rock thought it was pointless to hide and just bash the mechs into scrape. Rock was currently destroying a group of white fighter mechs until there were only two left. “Come on, show me what you got!” Rock exclaimed. The mechs lifted their guns and shot at the substitute guardian. Rock raised his drill claws to act as a shield to block the bullets before charging at the two. Rock constantly blocked all the shots with his drill claws until he was up close and personal with the mechs. Rock gave a strong uppercut to one of the mechs, knocking its head clean off, and bounced off the remains to plow through the second mechs chest armor to destroy it. “That takes care of them. You guys can come out now!” Rock called as Wing and Alexis walked out into the open. “You know, it would be a lot easier to find Eggman if you weren’t making such a ruckus.” Wing said. “Whatever.” Rock shrugged it off. “Well, well, if it isn’t our old pal Rock.” A familiar voice could be heard coming from the side.Rock, Wing and Alexis looked over to the source of the voice to find Vec, Esper, and Glee, Team Chaotix Jr. “Oh great, these guys again.” Rock groaned. “Hey is that anyway to treat old pals?” Vec questioned. “After all, we used to work together. Hey, ever consider joining up again?” Vec asked. “Forget it. I left the team a long time ago. I have my own team now and a responsibility.” Rock said. “Rock, what are you talking about?” Alexis asked. “A couple years back, I used to be a part of Team Chaotix Jr.” Rock informed his team. “He was a better leader then Vec. And it was truly a shame that he left.” Esper said. “Get over it, you guys. My answer is, and always will be, no.” Rock said. “Told you, Vec.” Esper said. Esper’s attention was quickly drawn to the chao that floated above Alexis’s head. “Vec, look!” Esper said as he pointed to it. “I see it. Excuse me little girl, but we’re going to need to take that chao off you hands.” Vec said. “No! You can’t Lucky!” Alexis exclaimed as she quickly grabbed the chao to hide him. “Then I guess we’ll have to do this the hard way.” Esper said. “Just the way I like it.” Rock said.Rock charged in head first, ready to attack Esper. Esper was about to counter until Vec pushed him aside. “Step aside, Esper. Let me show you how a real leader does things.” Vec said. “Oh, this should be good.” Esper said as he pulled a bucket of popcorn from out of nowhere. Vec charged at Rock and opened his big mouth wide open. He then snapped it closed when Rock was underneath him and trapped him in his mouth. “Ok, this is just sick and wrong.” Rock said from inside Vec’s mouth. Rock then pounded the inside of Vec’s mouth with his drill claws until Vec finally spit him out. “That was totally not fair.” Vec said while mending his aching snout. “All’s fair in love and battles.” Rock said.Esper was sitting to the side, watching Rock beat the hell out of Vec while eating his popcorn. But as he watched, he failed to notice a small golden ring fly in the popcorn. Unconsciously, Esper picked up the ring and placed it in his mouth, but spit it back out when he felt it. “What in the world” Esper questioned. Just then, the golden ring exploded in his face, turning his body as black as coal. “What was that?” Esper said as he returned his skin to its normal color. Esper looked to the side to see Wing holding a hand full of explosive rings. “Like that? Well, there’s plenty more where that came from.” Wing said as he threw the rings at the chameleon and directed them with his psychokinesis. Esper acted quickly by pulling out several kunai from his cuffs and threw them towards the rings. The rings exploded on contact and Esper took the opportunity to perform a single hand sign and become invisible. Wing was holding a handful of explosive rings, waiting for the smoke to clear. But when the smoke did clear, Esper was nowhere to be found. “Hey! Where’d he go?” Wing questioned. Just then, Wing felt something wrap around his leg and tried to look down, but looked up instead. Wing found himself hanging from a common rope trap as Esper reappeared. “This should keep you from causing any more trouble.” Esper said as he looked over to see how his teammates were doing.Esper saw that Vec was still getting his butt handed to him while Glee was...playing tag? Esper couldn’t believe it. Glee was playing tag with the enemy, Alexis, and the target, the chao. “It’s a wonder how I have been able to stay for so long.” Esper said. Esper knew that he had to end this quick in order to complete their mission. Esper reached into his cuffs and pulled out three black balls from inside. Rock was pounding away at Vec like there was no tomorrow when suddenly, three black balls landed in front of him and exploded in a cloud of black smoke. A few punches and groans could be heard from inside until the smoke cleared. Rock was bound by rope and gagged by tape on the floor with Esper standing in front of him.Esper walked up to Alexis and tried to take the chao away, but Alexis wouldn’t let go. “Listen child, we need to take this chao to a proper place where it won’t be harmed.” Esper as he gave another forceful pull, but Alexis still wouldn’t let go. “No, please, you can’t take Lucky away!” Alexis cried, causing Esper to panic. Esper heard another cry and looked over to see Glee crying. “Why are you crying, Glee?” Esper asked. “I don’t know!” Glee cried. Esper sweat dropped at the sight, but quickly shrugged it off. He looked back at Alexis, who was giving him the puppy eyes while still crying. “Please don’t take Lucky away.” Alexis pleaded once more. No one, not even the strict and serious Esper, could resist the adorable puppy eyes. “Fine.” Esper said as he let go. “Thank you.” said Alexis, who instantly stopped crying. “She set me up.” Esper thought. Come on, Glee. Time to go.” Esper said. “Right!” Glee exclaimed. Esper dragged Vec by his tail and began to walk away with Glee. “Bye-bye.” Alexis waved good bye and started to as leave well. As she left, Alexis couldn’t help feeling that she was forgetting something. “Somebody, anybody, help!” Wing shouted while Rock flopped around on the ground.

After their painful and humiliating defeat at the hands of Team Dark, Jet, Storm, and Wave escaped the dangerous Grand Metropolis and were currently hiding in the Casino Amusement Park. Storm was guarding a lone alleyway, keeping watch for anyone who might attack, while Wave was nursing a wounded Jet. Chaos’ last attack not only broke his shoulder blade, but his entire left arm was shattered. Jet had finally woke up, more confused then he normally was. “Ugh. Did anyone get the license off that truck?” Jet babbled. “Well, look who’s up. It’s about time.” Wave said. “Wave, what happened? Where are we?” Jet asked as he started to get up, but Wave kept him down. “Don’t move. You’re still hurt. Your arm was completely broken and we had to escape to this amusement park.” Wave explained the recent events. “Well then, we should get moving.” Jet said as he began to get back to his feet. “But Jet, you’re still hurt!” Wave protested. “I’m fine, Wave. Trust me.” Jet gave a reassuring smile before walking out of the alley. “I just know I am going to regret this.” Wave said to herself before following Jet.As Jet walked out, Storm quickly took notice of his recovery. “Boss, you’re ok! I’m so happy!” Storm cried as he wrapped Jet into a bone breaking hug. Jet felt lightheaded as all the oxygen in his body began to leave him. Luckily, Wave showed up just in time to whack Storm over the head with her huge wrench, forcing him to release Jet. “Hey! What was that for?!” Storm yelled. “You idiot! Jet is still hurt and you were just making it worse!” Wave yelled back. “How was I supposed to know?!” Storm Yelled. “By just looking at him!” Wave yelled back. As usual, Wave and Storm were shouting their heads off, irritating Jet. “SHUT UP!!!” Jet screamed, which was enough to stop the two from continuing. “Listen, we need to hurry up and find our way to Eggman’ before those freaks get to the treasure before us.” Jet said. “But where are we supposed to go?” Storm asked. “Well, Wave?” Jet asked. “It would be a good idea if we got out of this place first. Then we can look for Eggman.” Wave said. “Alright, let’s get out of here. The sooner, the better.” Jet said as he started to walk away with his team following from behind.While searching for a way out, Jet learned why this place was called Casino Park. The entire place was built like a casino with Slot machine buildings, roulette floors and other things that you would see at a casino. “Whoa, look at this place.” Storm said in amazement. “It’s no wonder how this place got its name.” Wave said. “Hey, what do you guys say we hit the place? I’m feeling lucky.” Jet said. “Jet, every time you feel lucky, we are the one that have to pay this price.” Wave said sternly. “Ah, come, Wave. Lighten up.” Jet said. “Jet, as your second-in-command and girlfriend, I said no.” Wave said sternly. “Ahh, why do you always have to spoil our fun?” Jet complained. “I think we might have the chance, boss.” Storm said. “How’s that?” Wave asked. “Because it looks like we’ll have to use the machines to get across.” Storm said. As Jet and Wave looked out, they found that Storm was right. “I never thought I would say this, but Storm is right.” Wave said. “It was bound to happen eventually.” Storm said. “Alright, let the fun begin!” Jet cheered as he ran off with Storm and Wave trailing behind.Team Babylon ran through the amusement park until they found themselves stopping right in front of a small cannon in front of a large pinball table. “Whoa, this place has everything!” Jet exclaimed. Wave ignored Jet’s exclamation to inspect the cannon and figure out a way through. “Hmm, it looks like we’ll have to use this cannon and act as pinball to get through this mess.” Wave explained. “So who’s going first?” Storm asked. Storm felt really nervous as Jet and Wave looked at him with menacing smiles on their faces. Jet and Wave forcefully grabbed Storm and stuffed him inside the cannon, which was amazing considering the size of the cannon. “Ready, Strom?” Jet asked. “No!” Storm shouted. “Too bad. Fire one!” Jet yelled as he pulled the cord that shot Storm out. “You’re next, Wave.” Jet said. “I don’t think so.” Wave said as she picked up Jet and stuffed him inside the cannon. “HEY!!!” Jet yelled. “Fire two!” Wave yelled as she pulled the cord that shot jet out.When Jet and Storm landed on the pinball table, the two birds were forced into ball forms similar to the ones the four hedgehogs, Blur, Night, Blair, Kumori, use. “How do you work this crazy thing?!” Jet yelled as he started to roll down the table. Back near the cannon, Wave had discovered a small control panel on the side wall. Wave pressed a button that activated a hologram of the pinball table. “This must be the master controls to the table.” Wave guessed. It was then that Wave saw that Jet was headed to bottom of the hologram. Wave knew that if he fell off, he would die. “I should have let Storm do this. He’s the game expert.” Wave said. As Jet nearly reached the bottom, Wave pressed a button that activated the flippers. The flippers on the pinball table activated and hit Jet towards the top. Luckily enough, a flipper close to the top hit Storm and flung him up to the next area. Jet bounced off the bumpers at random before falling back down. Wave waited for a moment before delivering another blow with the flippers. The angle of the blow flung Jet high enough to pass the bumpers and over to the next area. “NEW HIGHSCORE!” the machine said. “Oh yeah, I am good.” Wave gloated.Jet and Storm were recovering for their experience as they tried to get back to their feet, stumbling over before actually succeeding. Just then, Wave appeared out of nowhere, riding the Tsunami before landing in front of the two. “Whoa! Hold on! How come you didn’t have to go through all that?!” Jet questioned. “Because unlike you two, I remembered to bring my Gear.” Wave boasted. “Why didn’t you tell us?” Storm asked. “You never asked.” Wave joked. “I hate you.” Jet said lowly. “I love you too, Jet.” Wave said before grabbing his beak and proceeded to kiss him. “Oh, gross!” Storm exclaimed while shielding his eyes. Unfortunately, their little moment did not last long. For seemingly out of nowhere, three powerful kick hit the Babylon Rogues in the back and sent them fly five feet away. The bird trio got back to their feet and turned around to face their attackers. Standing only a few feet away were three standard mechs with nothing but razor sharp claws. A green mech, a purple mech, and a grey mech. “Leave it to Eggman to build things like these.” Wave said.The three mechs suddenly jumped and pulled the trio away fro each other to fight alone. Jet was pulled away by the purple mech before being thrown to the side. Jet was lucky enough to land on his arm to break the fall, but unfortunately, it was his left arm. “AHH!” Jet screamed as he clutched his shattered arm. The purple mech walked up to Jet and pulled out what looked to be a mechanical wrench. The purple mech raised its wrench and brought it down on the fallen bird, but Jet quickly use his other arm to pull out his fan and blocked it. “You’ll have to do better then that!” Jet exclaimed as he pushed the mech back and jumped to his feet. Jet proceeded to wave his fan to form a miniature tornado. But the mech was too heavy to be lifted and jumped out of the tornado to punch Jet in the beak. “Ok, that didn’t go so well.” Jet said.Wave was left to deal with the grey mech, who was leaving large holes in the ground from it barrage of missed punches. “Geez, this thing is probably even more strong then that Multis robot.” Wave said as she ducked under another punch. When the grey mechs landed its fist it the ground again, Wave took the opportunity to pull out her wrench and charge at the mech. “You’re finished, you ugly overgrown toaster!” Wave yelled as she swung her wrench. Unfortunately, the minute her wrench made contact, it rebounded and greatly shook Wave. Wave dropped her wrench as the mach approached her. “You know, maybe that toaster crack was a little out of line, huh?” Wave said nervously. The mech grabbed Wave by the back of her shirt and proceeded to spin around before throwing Wave to the other side of the area.Storm was left with the green mech and seemed to hold the advantage as he continuously punched the mech left and right. “Come on! Is that all you got?!” Storm exclaimed before throwing another punch to the side of the mechs head. Even though Storm was brutally beating the mech to a pulp, it had seemed that the mech showed no sign of damage. Very soon, Storm grew so tried that he couldn’t even lift up his arms. “Ok, your turn.” Storm said exhaustingly. The green mech merely raised its hand toward Storm and opened a small hole in its palm. All of a sudden, an extremely high pressure of wind escaped from the hole and shot out towards the muscular bird. The high pressure was too much for even Storm to resist and was hurled back to the far end of the area.Jet, Wave and Storm were all beaten without mercy by the mechs and thrown to the center of the area. “Well, this could have gone better.” Wave said as the mech drew closer from each side. Each mech readied their individual attack to finish the thieving birds. Just then, an idea struck Jet. “Wave, give me your wrench!” Jet ordered. “Ok, but why do you need it?” Wave asked as she handed him her wrench. Just as the mechs were about to attack, Jet lifted his right arm and shouted “TIME BREAK!” With that, Jet disappeared. Wave and Storm waited for a few moments, but nothing happened. “I can’t believe he ditched us!” Wave yelled. “I didn’t ditch anyone.” Wave and Storm looked over to see jet standing next to the green. And with a snap of his fingers, the mechs fell to pieces. “Great job, boss.” Storm said. “Yeah, but we should get out of here before more of those things show up.” Jet said as he began to walk away with his team.Unbeknownst to the thieving Rogues, a familiar red hedgehog we have all come o know as Rector was watching from the top of a nearby building. “Are you sure Blur is here, Eggman? The only ones I see are a flock of pigeons.” Rector said, referring to the Babylon Rogues, into the walkie-talkie. “No, I am not sure that Blur is there. I only sent you there so that you would pursue those ‘pigeons’” Eggman said over the walkie-talkie. “What?! You lied to me?!” Rector questioned. “Calm down, Rector. I promise to reveal Blur’s location, but only if you follow your orders. Now listen carefully. Their leader, Jet, possesses two extraordinary items, the crystal box and the golden ring. Bring them to me and I will give you what you want.” Eggman bargained. “Fine, but I won’t like it.” Rector said before cutting off the Walkie-talkie and jumped down to follow the Rogues.

Jet, Wave, and Storm were still lost inside the amusement park and decided to stop and rest after their encounter with the mechs. At the time, Wave took the opportunity to bandaging up the teams injuries. She and Storm were lucky enough to sustain minor injury, but Jet was not so lucky. The fight against the mech had once again shattered the bones in his left arm. “Honestly, Jet, how do you always find yourself in these spots?” Wave questioned irritantly as she change the bandages on Jet’s arm. “Oh yeah, like it’s my fault.” Jet replied, equally irritated. “Listen, all I’m saying is that you need to be more careful. I’m really worried about you.” Wave said worryingly. “Alright, I’ll take it easy.” Jet said. Thirty minutes ago, Wave sent Storm to scout the area and he still was not back. “Where is that idiot?! I mean, how long does it take to walk around and map the area?! I mean, really!” Wave flared, terrifying Jet. “Whoa! And I though she was hot before.” Jet thought to himself.Just then, Storm came back, carrying a whole mess of junk foods from chips to pizza. “Hey guys!” Storm exclaimed before stuffing his beak with another hot dog. Storm was too busy eating that he didn’t notice Wave pull out her wrench until it bashed across his head, sending all the foods flying. The food splattered all across Jet as Wave continued to beat Storm to a pulp. among the food, Jet had somehow come across the yellow chaos emerald. "What a wierd place to hide this." Jet said as he held up the emerald. Jet was about to tell his teammates about the emerald, but he noticed that they were still busy and decided to keep it a secret. "What they don't know won't hurt them." Jet said to himself. “We have been waiting all this time and you have been stuffing you face?! I’m gonna kill you, Storm!” Wave yelled as she delivered another blow across Storm’s head.“Boss, help!!!” Storm screamed for help. “Alright, Wave, I think he suffered enough.” Jet said coolly. After a minute, Wave finally calmed down, much to Storm’s relief. “Storm, did you at least do your job?” Jet asked. Strom weakly got up and said “Yep, got it all right here.” Storm held up a map of the amusement park. “Let me see that!” Wave demanded as she pulled the map out of Storm’s hand to inspect it. “Hmm, apparently we have to go through Bingo Highway if we want to get out of this place.” Wave said. “Alright then, Bingo Highway it is.” Jet said as he got up and started to leave with Storm. “I just know this won’t end well.” Wave said before following the rest of her team.Jet, Wave, and Storm soon themselves standing outside the entrance that leads into Bingo Highway. The only problem was that it was closed off due to repairs. “Come on, you’ve got to be kidding me!” Jet complained, as usual, to the repair man. “Sorry man, but some hedgehogs came tore up the track. But don’t worry; we’ll have it up in three days.” The repair man said before walking away. “Three days?! We don’t have that long!” Jet yelled. “Calm down. There has to be another way. Let’s think for a moment.” Wave said. The Babylon Rogues took a moment to think of a plan until Storm started screaming. “What’s wrong?!” Jet shouted in a panic. “Brain cramp.” Storm whined while clutching his head. Jet and Wave groaned. But while Storm was being...himself, a group of white fighter mechs were hiding behind one of the die shaped stands, aiming their guns at the birds. The mechs fired their guns, but missed as the ricocheted off the Extreme Gear board that Wave was carrying. “What was that?” Storm questioned when he noticed the bullets. Just then, the fighter mechs came out of hiding with a swarm of flying mech and two giant mechs. “Why do they always show up when you don’t want them?” Jet asked himself.The mech once again shot their guns and the rogues scattered. Jet did a one hand back flip and found himself facing off against the white fighter mechs...alone. “So much for teamwork.” Jet said to himself. The fighter mechs raised the arm guns and fired out at a rapid pace. Thankfully because of his races against Sonic, Jet was able to move fast enough to avoid the bullets. Unfortunately, Jet was headed for towards a wall and the bullets were gaining on him, so he did the one thing he could think of. Jet used his undamaged hand to pull out his feathered fan, jumped up, and waved the fan to create a mighty gust of wind that shot him back behind the mechs. Upon land behind the mechs, Jet sprang forward to cut the mechs in half with his fans. “This is just too easy.” Jet boasted. Just then, more fighter mechs dropped from the sky. “I really need to learn how to keep my beak shut.” Jet told himselfWave was riding the Tsunami in the air while trying to avoid the gun shots from the flying mechs. “These guys just don’t know when to quit, do they?” Wave said. Unknown to Wave, one of the flying mechs shot ahead of the group and was floating above Wave’s head. The single mech aimed its gun downwards and fired a single bullet at the genius swallow. Luckily, the bullet missed Wave, but shot through the head of the Tsunami, causing Wave to fall flat of her beak. As the flying mechs moved in closer, Wave turned to them with the flames of rage burning in her eyes. “You...ruined...my...GEAR!!!” Wave yelled furiously as she pulled out her signature weapon. See the enraged swallow, the flying mechs attempted to escape, but Wave anger gave her amazing speed. She zoomed around the mechs, crushing their heads as she passed by, until there were none left. “That’ll show you not to mess with me.” Wave said. Just then, even more flying mechs floated around her. “Oh boy.” Wave said.While Jet and Wave were busy with the smaller mechs, Storm was stuck with the two giant mechs, not that he was complaining. “Alright, show me what you got.” Storm challenged. The first of the mechs charged at Storm and raised its fist before being it down on the albatross. But being the superior in strength, Storm quickly grabbed the mechs fist and swings it over his head. While the mech was still down, Storm quickly grabbed the mechs head and ripped it off. “Who’s next?” Storm turned to the last giant mech. Unlike the previous mech, this mech had black balls for hands, which it threw at Storm. Storm was caught off guard by the sudden attack and was pelted to the wall. “Ok, that hurt.” Storm said. Storm pried himself from the wall just in time to see the mech throw another black ball. Think fast...ok, scratch that. Storm caught the black ball and kicked it back to the mech, lucky enough to knock its head off. “Oh yeah, oh yeah!” Storm cheered while doing a ridiculous dance. It was quite an embarrassing sight. Storm instantly stopped when five walker mech dropped from the sky. “Oh no!” Storm yelped.The Babylon Rogues were trapped and forced to regroup together after being surrounded by the army of mechs. “You know, somehow, I just knew it would end this way.” Wave said. “Are we really gonna die?” Storm asked. “Unless some miracle happens, we’re as good as dead.” Jet said. And just as Jet said, a miracle happened. Several small black balls landed on the ground and exploded in a cloud of black smoke. “What’s going on?” Jet questioned. A minute later, the smoke had vanished and the mechs were found in pieces. “Is this what you meant by a miracle?” The Babylon Rogues looked to the top of a destroy mech to find none other then Rector Marina. “Yeah, thanks.” Jet said. “Don’t thank me. I wanted to be the one to defeat you three.” Rector said before jumping down from the destroyed mech. “Ok, now I’m lost.” Jet said. “The only reason I am here is to retrieve two special items from you. The crystal box and the golden ring.” Rector stated. “What?! It’ll be a cold day in hell when that happens!” Jet shouted. “Very well, have it your way.” Rector said as he moved it his Taijutsu fighting stance.“I don’t care who you are! There is no way you are going to get to the boss, unless you get through me!” Storm stated. “Seems simple enough.” Rector said mockingly. Storm quickly grew angry and charged at Rector recklessly. “Storm, you idiot, get back here!” Wave called out, but her pleas were not heard. When he came close, Strom threw a might punch to Rector’s face, but the red hedgehog made no effort to move. Rector held his hand out and pushed away Storm’s fist like it was nothing. “Whoa! This guy is good. But not good enough.” Storm thought. Storm picked himself up and swung around for a hook, but Rector quickly ducked down. “Too slow.” Rector said. Rector spun around to trip Storm and then pushed him away hard to send him flying into a nearby wall. The force of the attack was so strong that it left Storm out cold. “Who’s next?” Rector challenged.“That’s it! You’re dead, hedgehog!” Jet shouted as he attempted to attack Rector, but was pulled back by Wave. “Wave, what are you doing?” Jet asked. “Jet, you’re still injured from the last fight. Let me handle this.” Wave said as she walked over to Rector, wielding her signature wrench. Wave was itching to fight, but Rector was having a little trouble, which Wave noticed. “What’s wrong? Scared?” Wave mocked. “I am sorry, but I cannot fight a female.” Rector said. Just then, Rector was hit across the face by Wave wrench and was thrown back over ten feet. “Don’t you know chivalry is dead?” Wave said. “Rector picked himself up and faced Wave again. Even though she was attacking him, Rector just couldn’t fight, so he decided do the only thing he could. “I apologize in advance for what I am about to do.” Rector said to Wave. “Huh?” Wave questioned. Rector charged at Wave and she retaliated by swinging her wrench down. Unfortunately, she missed, which gave him a chance to run behind her. Rector then chopped Wave in the back of her neck, which knocked her out and caused her to fell to the ground.“Wave!” Jet cried out to his love. “I have defeated your little comrades. If you know what’s good for you, you will hand over hand over the items I seek.” Rector said. “Wave, Storm. You hurt them. Now I’m gonna make you pay for that!” Jet flared, but Rector was unaffected. Jet charged recklessly at Rector with his fan held high. Jet threw the fan down to swat at Rector, but calm hedgehog quickly grabbed jet by his wrist and forced the fan out of his hand. “Your finished.” Rector stated. Jet tried to break free of Rector’s hold, but was too weak. While trying to wiggle free, he caught sight of his ring and smirked. “You want my ring, you got it.” Jet said as his ring began to glow brilliantly. “TIME BREAK!” In a flash, Jet had disappeared from Rector’s sight. “Where did he go?” Rector questioned. “YO!” a voice came from behind. Rector looked back for a moment and when he did, he found a red boot connecting with his face. Rector was sent skipping across the ground with Jet smiling victoriously. “Look’s like I win.” Jet boasted.But Jet’s victory was cut short when Rector got back to his feet without showing the slightest bit of exhaustion. Rector used his glove to wipe the blood that was pouring from his mouth and stared at it. “You know, you’re the second person that ever did any actual damage to me. It looks like I can’t hold back on you anymore.” Rector said. Rector reached behind his back and pulled out three simple needles. “Needles? You expect to beat me with needles?” Jet laughed. Jet wasn’t laughing when Rector threw the needles. Two of them were only used as a distraction to catch Jet’s attention while the third nailed him in his right shoulder. “Hah! Too bad. My turn.” Jet said. Jet tried to move his arm, but found that he couldn’t “Hey, what’s going on?” Jet questioned. “I attacked the pressure point in your right shoulder to render it useless.” Rector said. “But how?” Jet questioned. “To understand this, you would need to know the basics of anthro anatomy. It’s something I learn from a group of trackers. Now, to finish the job.” Rector said. Rector charged at Jet and swiped him across the face to knock him back. Then he kicked Jet upwards and brought his fist down to plow Jet into the ground. The attack was so strong that Jet fainted on contact.With Jet, Wave, and Storm all unconscious, it was simple for Rector to obtain what he was looking for. Rector removed the golden ring from Jet’s finger and the crystal box from his feathers and began to walk away. While he may have successfully completed his mission, Rector couldn’t help feel that what he was doing was wrong. “I know I want to Blur, but does that mean I have to become something I’m not?” Rector asked himself. He thought it over for a moment before coming to a decision. Rector placed Jet’s ring and box next to his body and left, choosing to find Blur on his own instead of becoming an evil thief. But unknown to Rector, a pair of blood red eyes were watching him leave before turning back to the knocked out birds. The figure took a chance to scan them. “Jet the Hawk, Wave the Swallow, Storm the Albatross. All data...successfully copied.”

You probably remember the crazy industrial site of Kingdom Valley in Soleanna, but it’s nowhere near as crazy as Rail Canyon. Everywhere there were grind rails, destructive trains, and a seemingly endless supply of mechs. It would seem that Eggman was using the area as a new base of operation. Suddenly, one of the many buildings exploded and Jac was seen flying out from the explosion. Jac landed with a loud thud and groaned in pain. “Ugh. Fire and gunpowder, not one of my better ideas.” Jac told himself. As Jac slowly got back to his feet, he accidentally hit a button on a nearby pod and opened it up. When the pod opened, Jac was shocked to see what was inside. Inside the pod was...Sonic?. “What? How is this possible?” Jac asked himself in his head as he moved closer to the other Jac. Jac reached his hand out to touch the Sonic like thing, but upon contact, the Sonic like thing changed to a useless puddle of ooze. “What is going on?” Jac asked himself.Jac continued to ask himself these questions that he could not answer until he heard a pair of footsteps coming from behind. Jac didn’t need to turn around to know who it was. It was obviously Multis and Jasmine, who looked seriously ticked. Without warning, Jasmine ran over to Jac and delivered a striking blow to the back of his head. “You idiot! What were you thinking back there?! You could have killed us!” Jasmine screeched, but Jac paid no attention to Jasmine. Jasmine noticed that he made no remark and was really worried. Even though she could hardly stand him, she was really worried for him. “Hey, Jac, are you ok?” Jasmine asked in a concerned manner. “I’m fine. Come on, let’s get moving.” Jac said solemnly as he left. Jasmine and Multis let Jac have a moment alone before chasing after him.As the trio ran further into the canyon, they found themselves grinding along the rails that wrapped around the rocks. “Eggman’s energy has been detected up ahead! Hmm, this is strange...” Multis suddenly said. “What do you mean by strange?” Jasmine asked. “Eggman’s energy signature has been found to be identical to hedgehog energy. Not only that, but it has also been found to match the energies of us and the Babylon Rogues.” Multis informed. “How is that possible?” Jasmine questioned. “Well, we’ll just have to find out then. Ok, new mission, find and capture Dr. Eggman!” Jac instructed. “You got it!” “Affirmative!” Jasmine and Multis said. “And maybe he could provide some answers to what that thing was back there.” Jac thought, referring to the Sonic like thing he met a while back.Jac and the rest of Team Dark continued to grind along the rails until the found themselves in, what looked to be, a train station. “Multis, where is Eggman located.” Jac asked. “Unconfirmed! Too much interference!” Multis stated. “Interference? From what?” Jac questioned. Just then, the side wall bust open unexpectedly. From the gapping hole came three strangely crafted mechs. Unlike most mechs, the smaller two of the three seem to be without weapons, not counting their razor claws. The first mech was blue, the second mech was white, and the third mech was twice the size of the other two and was red. “You just had to ask, didn’t you?” Jasmine glared. The three mechs then suddenly pounced and grabbed each individual member to fight alone.Jac was grabbed by the giant red mechs and was swung around until he was thrown to a nearby wall. To prevent any harm, Jac Used Chaos Warp. After taking a moment to reappear, Jac landed back on the ground and looked seriously ticked. “You do not know how much I hate that.” Jac said as he fire a Nexus Blade Wave. The red mech held out its arm and retracted its claws the change it to a machine gun. “Where does this seem familiar?” Jac said to himself. The mech then fired its machine gun, which Jac jumped around to avoid. Jac bounced off the rock wall as the mechs gun continued to chase him. “This is taking too long. If I don’t finish this soon, Eggman will get away. And I am not about to let that happen.” Jac said as he jumped from another wall. While the mech was busy shooting at Jac, it didn’t notice energy fields below it. Suddenly, the energy changed to tentacles that wrapped around the mechs arms and forced them down. “Now to end this.” Jac said as he jumped from the wall. Jac was flying like a bullet and smashed through the mechs chest armor and ripped out its core, thus defeating it.Jasmine was held by the blue mech and was thrown into the air. Luckily, having a jet pack, Jasmine merely extended her wings to catch herself in midair. Alright, show what you got, bad-bot.” Jasmine smirked. The blue mechs crouched down for a moment before shooting straight up towards Jasmine. Once it was only a few inches from Jasmine, it held out its hand to show three gapping holes in its palm. Then all of a sudden, three strong jets of water shot out of the mechs palm and nailed Jasmine hard. Jasmine tried to catch flight again, but her jet pack was too soaked to work and she landed on the steel floor with a loud thud. Jasmine weakly got to her knees and looked up to see the blue mech hold out its hand to attack again. Acting on instinct, Jasmine quickly spun around to trip the mech on its back. With her jet pack now dry, Jasmine flew up into the air as the mech got back to its feet. “Ok, play time’s over.” Jasmine said as she made a dive for the mech. The mech countered by shooting its water jets again, but Jasmine had already though of a plan. “SCREW KICK!” Jasmine called out her signature technique. Jasmine spun around so fast that the jets bounced off of her and allowed her to plow into the mechs chest to destroy it.Multis was kicked across the station and crash through one of the trains and into the rock wall. It had appeared that the white mech held great strength in its lower body. “Primary target locked! Initiating attack mode!” Multis stated. Multis retracted its claws to exchange them for Amy’s hammer. “Target locked and fire!” Multis exclaimed as he began to swing his hammers wildly at the white mech. unfortunately, the white mech suddenly sprouted wings from its back and took off into the skies. Since Multis’s reaction was extremely slow, Multis had no time to prepare for the white mechs as it kicked him to the side. Multis was thrown face down in the floor and tried to get up, but the white mechs was too fast and stomp Multis further into the floor. Just as Multis had seemed defeated, Multis suddenly reversed his arm to grab hold of the white mechs legs. Multis then hurled the mech over his head and crashed it into the floor in front of him. Multis quickly got back to his feet and started swinging mercilessly at the white mech before it even had a chance to react.With the mechs properly dealt with, Team Dark met back in the center of the train station. “Man, I’m sore all over.” Jac said as he started massaging his muscles. “Quit complaining. At least you don’t have a soft body to feel pain with.” Jasmine whined as she stretched her aching arms. “Well, that we got rid of those guys, Multis, do you know where Eggman is?” Jac asked again. “Negative. Still too much inference.” Multis replied. “But if it wasn’t those piles of scrap, then what’s causing it?” Jac questioned. Just then, the steel gates opened up and the group looked over to see a large black train headed into the station. It was then that Team Dark noticed was standing directly in front of the train’s path. “You just had to ask, didn’t you?” Jasmine glared. Acting fast, Jac put a force field around his teammates and used Nexus Stretch to extend his arm to grab hold on a pipeline to pull them all to safety. “Confirmed! Eggman’s presence has been detected on board!” Multis stated. “You mean on the train?” Jasmine asked as Jac set them down. “Things are never easy, are they?” Jac asked himself before racing after the train with Jasmine and Multis.Inside the dark train, there were six monitors that showed six separate videos. The videos were showing the six hero teams and how they were progressing. Team Speed somehow found themselves back in Seaside Hill, Team Charm was still wandering around Grand Metropolis, Team Babylon was still looking for an exit out of Casino Park, Team Rock were seen wondering in Frog Forest, and Team Chaotix Jr was wandering around the outside of Hang Castle. The final monitor showed Team Enemy chasing after the black train. A metal claw came from the darkness and scratched across the image of Jac. “Jac is more powerful then I have anticipated. This is getting out of control.” The unknown figure took a seat in front of the monitor and zoomed in on Jac’ image. “He must be eliminated. Rector has already failed to kill Blur and has also failed to retrieve the control box and genie ring from Jet, so I cannot rely on him. It looks like I’ll have to take things into my own hands.” The figure said as his body transformed into a silver liquid.

Jac, Jasmine, and Multis had just finished with their battle against the mechanical menaces and were currently pursuing the black train, which Multis said contained Eggman from within. Because of her fast jet pack, Jasmine was able to catch up with the train, no problem. Unfortunately, because of Multis’s heavy body and Jac’ trying to push him, the two fell way behind. Jasmine landed at the backdoor of the train and waved back to the other two. “See ya later, boys! I got me a treasure to find!” Jasmine called back before stepping through the door. “If I ever get my handss on her, I’ll kill her.” Jac proclaimed as he skidded to a stop and watched the train turn around the corner, out of their sight. “Now what do we do?” Jac asked his robotic companion. “Perhaps an alternative method would be effective.” Multis suggested as he pointed to the side. Jac looked to where Multis was pointing to see a gigantic canyon mounted to the top of a stone pillar.Back inside the train, Jasmine walked through the door to the last car, which surprisingly held no security onboard. “That’s strange. If Eggman was trying to stay safe, you would think that he would have a few bodyguards on hand.” Jasmine thought out loud. Upon reaching the main engine of the train, Jasmine spotted something that made her shout with glee. “A Chaos emerald!” Jasmine exclaimed. Indeed, there was the white Jac emerald connected to the engine of the train, locked inside a glass container. Just underneath the haos emerald container was a control console for the train. As Jasmine walked up to the console, she noticed that it needed a password. “This is too easy. M-A-R-I-A, Maria.” Jasmine entered the password. Jasmine walked over to the container, expecting it to open, when suddenly, the alarm went off. “Intruder alert! Intruder Alert! Activating security defense system!” the Alarm blared. Several security guns opened out from the walls and all aimed themselves at Jasmine. “Looks like the Doctor has finally changed that password.” Jasmine said. Both Jac and Multis were treading along the side of the stone pillar, using their claws to climb up. Suddenly, Jac stopped and Multis noticed. “Why have you ceased from moving?” Multis questioned. “I don’t know, but I have a feeling something bad is happening to Jasmine. This is taking to long, we have to hurry!” Jac exclaimed. “Confirmed! Initiating Tails mode!” Multis stated. And just as he said, Multis activated the 2 mechanical tails on his… you know what to pull himself up along the stone pillar, grabbing Jac as he passed by. When they had reached the top, Multis, landed in front of a large steel door before let Jac down. “You can fly?!” Jac questioned. “Affirmative! But Flight is impossible for me to carry 2 people.” Multis stated, but Jac didn’t really understand. “Whatever, do you think you can get us inside?” Jac asked as he pointed to the steel door. “Affirmative!” Multis replied. Multis walked up to the steel door and displayed his immense power by busting it down with a single swing of his fist. “Whoa. Remind me never to get you angry.” Jac said. Jac and Multis walked inside the cannon and inside they saw a large piston in the center of the room. “This seems easy.” Jac said as he scanned the room. “Too easy.” Jac said suspiciously. Just then, a large number of white fighter mechs dropped front the ceiling to land in front of the two. “Like I said, too easy.” Jac said. The white mechs all raised their guns in unity and fired at once. Jac instinctively dropped to the ground to avoid the shots, but Multis, thanks to his heavy armor, just stood in place, allowing the shots to bounce off of him. “Enemy threat detected! Initiating attack sequence!” Multis stated. Multis retracted his hands to replace them with laser guns and fired at the mech in a wild and unusual manner. One by one, the mechs were being destroyed by Multis in the front, while Jac snuck up on them from behind. Once he was behind them, Jac used a Nexus Slice attack to burst through two of the mechs backs. “Alright, who’s next?” Jac said. The fighter mechs turned back to Jac and started shooting towards his direction. Jac quickly back flipped, accidentally falling into the piston. “This can’t be good.” Jac said. And just as he thought, the piston suddenly moved up and mounted itself inside the cannon above.“This feels really uncomfortable” Jac said as he felt himself being stuffed inside the cannon. Back down with Multis and the mechs, Multis was shooting towards a group of red fighter mechs that had just arrived a few moments ago. Unfortunately the red mechs armor was made of stronger alloy then the white mechs and was immune to Multis laser shots. Because of the powerful missiles, the mechs had Multis was forced to hide behind a broken plate of steel. “Chances of a successful victory are dropping exponentially. Switch to alternative attack method.” Multis stated. Multis retracted his lasers guns to replace them for his hands. The sides of Multis’s arms opened to reveal a series of small missiles latched to them. Multis moved out from behind the steel plate to fire the missiles at his attackers. Unfortunately, one of the missiles was off course and destroyed the control console for the cannon. “What was that?” Jac asked himself when he felt that the cannon began to move. “This cannot be good.” Jac said. All of a sudden, Jac felt himself being launched out of the cannon and was flying across the canyon.Back on the train, laser fire could be heard from inside. Then suddenly, Jasmine burst through the window to land outside on a steel walkway. “Whew, that was a close one.” Jasmine sighed in relief. She smiled proudly as she held the white Chaos emerald within her gloved hand. “Well, at least something good came out of this.” Jasmine said as she stood to her feet. Just then, her sensitive ears caught the sound of a gun reloading from behind. Jasmine turned to see three white fighter mechs aiming their guns at her head. “Uh...hi?” Jasmine chuckled nervously. All had seem finished for Jasmine until a red blur dropped from the sky and collided with the mechs, causing them to fall off the walkway and drop down into the canyon. Jasmine took a closer look to see that her rescuer was Jac, who was dizzily trying to get back up. “Ok, that hurt.” Jac said while trying to get up and almost fell until Jasmine caught him. “That was a crazy thing you did.” Jasmine said. “Well, I’m a crazy guy.” Jac said. “Yeah, that obvious.” Jasmine chuckled. “What were you doing anyway?” Jac asked. “Look what I found.” Jasmine said as she held out the Chaos emerald. “Let me see that.” Jac said as he took the emerald from Jasmine’s hands. Jac stared at it, entranced by its shining gleam, until a flash of light appeared inside his mind.Jac found himself awakened when Jasmine began slapping him across the face. “Hey, quit it!” Jac yelled, ending Jasmine’s slap fest. “Well it’s about time. I was starting to think that brain of yours fell out.” Jasmine said. Jac made no effort to reply to Jasmine’s mockery and Jasmine noticed this. “Hey, what’s wrong?” Jasmine asked. “Nothing. Come on let’s go. We still have to pick up Multis.” Jac said. The two were prepared to leave until the sound of jet engines reached their ear. The duo turned around to witness a gigantic red hawk-like machines passing over the canyon walls to float in front of them. After a close examination, they noticed Eggman sitting at the pilot’s seat.“My, if it isn’t Jasmine and Jac. How have you been?” Eggman asked cheerfully. “Doctor Eggman.” Jasmine said, perking Jac’ interest. “So this is Eggman. Now’s my chance for some answers.” Jac though. “Get ready, you fools.” Eggman said as he prepared to press a random button until. “Hold on!” Eggman looked to see Jac moving towards him. “Eggman, please, I must. Tell me, why can’t I remember anything?” Jac asked, making Eggman laugh. “You fool. The reason you can’t remember your past is because I deleted it.” Eggman stated. “What?!” Jac shouted in shock. “Now, where was I. Oh, yes. Prepare to meet your doom!” Eggman proclaimed.Eggman pressed a button on the control panel to activate the Egg-Hawk’s laser turrets. The laser turrets turn to shoot at Jac and Jasmine, but Jasmine had already taken to the skies. As she looked back, she noticed that Jac remained standing in the same spot as before. “Jac, move!” Jasmine shouted. “Too late!” Eggman shouted joyously. As the lasers came closer, no one noticed the Chaos emerald being absorbed into Jac hand. The lasers landed their mark and the spot was covered in a layer of smoke. “Jac.” Jasmine said in a sorrowful manner, believing Jac was finished. When the smoke had cleared Jac was still standing without a scratch and had changed he was now Nexus. “Time to end this little game.” Jac said with an evil tone. Nexus charged at the Egg-Hawk, sending the evil doctor into a panic. “No, no, stop him!!!” Eggman yelled. The turrets fired their lasers, but Nexus merely swung the laser fire away with his right arm. When he was right under it, Nexus jumped up to crash through the Egg-Hawk and it exploded.It was at that time that Multis had finally reach Jasmine and the two of them walked over to the crash sight to see Jac, in his default form, standing in front of Eggman. “Eggman unit has been destroyed!” Multis stated. “Don’t be too sure.” Jac said. Jasmine and Multis looked at Jac in confusion until he kicked Eggman’s side, which, to their surprise, caused his chest to open and reveal a mechanical Eggman head. It had become obvious that this Eggman was a fake. Multis shook his fist in anger while Jasmine spotted something next to the fake Eggman. It was a head and not just any head, it was Sonic’s head. Jasmine watched as the cause head dissolved into a useless puddle of ooze and guessed that Jac noticed it as well. “What’s Eggman up to this…?” Jasmine tried to speak, but Jac interrupted. “Come on, let’s get moving.” Jac said as he started to walk away with his teammate behind him. But when Team Enemy had left, the fake Eggman dissolved into a silver puddle and took upon another form. “This may work to my advantage.”

It has not been long since Rock, Wing, and Alexis had left the wondrous mountain area outside of Station Square to arrive in the flourishing Frog Forest. It was obvious how it got its name because of all the frogs in the surrounding areas. But the frogs weren’t like normal ones. These frogs were three times the size of normal frog. In fact, one of the frogs had accidentally mistaken a chao for a fly and swallowed him whole. “Lucky, NO!” Alexis cried as Lucky was eaten alive. “All right, toad face, cough it up!” Rock demanded. But when the frog refused to follow orders, Rock charged at the large frog and delivered a serious blow to the frogs gut. The initial attack not only knocked the frog out cold, but it also forced it to spit out Lucky, who landed directly on Wing face. “Eww!” Wing exclaimed as he removed the sticky Lucky from his face and cleaned it off. “Yay!” Alexis cried for joy as she hugged Lucky, but pushed it away as the frog saliva smellbothered her. “Thank you, Rock.” Alexis bowed her head to Rock. “Not a problem. Just be sure to stick close, this place is dangerous.” Rock warned his teammates before moving on.As the group progressed further into the dense forest, Alexis noticed Rock staring at a small object wrapped in a brown cloth in his hands. “Excuse me, Rock. But, if you don’t mind me asking, what is that?” Alexis asked, referring to the object in Rock large palm. “Oh, this? It’s nothing really.” Rock said, trying to avoid any questioning. “I don’t buy that one bit.” Wing said, deciding to join in on the conversation. Rock knew that Wing was as persistent as Blur, and with Alexis, it would be impossible for him to avoid. He decided he might as well tell them. “All right, I’ll tell you. The truth is it’s actually something for...Jasmine.” Rock said the last part quietly, but Alexis heard. “A gift for Jasmine?” Alexis asked. “Kind of” Rock said. “Is it her birthday?” Alexis asked. “No.” Rock replied. “Then why would you have a gift for her? I thought you guys hated each other.” Wing said. “You’ll understand soon Wing.” Rock said with a smirk on his face. But unknown to the group, three pairs of red eyes were watching from the trees.Only a short while later did Rock, Wing, and Alexis find themselves grinding along three large vines that surrounded a gigantic mushroom. “Wow! Everything it this forest is so big!” Alexis exclaimed in amazement. “It isn’t surprising the constant sun and the frogs can provide rain whenever they want.” Wing informed them. “Listen, there is a time for sightseeing and this isn’t it.” Rock said sternly. “He’s right. We have to hurry and stop Eggman before he takes the Master Emerald.” Wing said. “Speaking of whom, how are we supposed to find Eggman?” Rock questioned. “Perhaps I can answer that.” Rock reached behind his back to pull out the red walkie-talkie they had since the beginning of the adventure. “What are you taking about?” Rock asked. “In the center of the forest is a chaos emerald. Find that emerald and it’s sure to catch Eggman’s attention.” The voice said before cutting off from communication. “You know, he might be right.” Wing said. “Then what are we waiting? Let’s move.” Rock said.After a long grind down the vines, Rock, Wing, and Alexis found themselves in a clearing filled with large frog, scaring Lucky, who was hiding behind Alexis’s head. “Wow, I have never seen so many frogs in one place.” Wing said in amazement. But while Wing and Alexis were looking wondrously at the frogs, Rock spotted something on the ground not far from them. As he drew closer to the object, he found it to be the light-blue chaos emerald, just like the voice from the walkie-talkie said. “Weird. How did that voice even know that Luckys emerald would be here?” Rock asked himself as he picked up Luckys emerald. “There’s something not right about that guys.” Rock said as he placed Luckys emerald safely with Jasmine’s gift. Just then, the screams of his teammates could be heard. “AAAHHH!!!” “Wing! Alexis!” Rock exclaimed. As Rock ran back to his friends, he found them surrounded by four white fighter mechs. “Hey! Get away from them!” Rock yelled as he pulled out the shovel claws and charged recklessly and the group of mechs.Upon the furious battle cry, the fighter mechs turned their attention towards the rampaging Rock. The mechs lined up and raised their guns to fire. Rock quickly crouched down to his knees and raised his drills to act as a shield to defend himself from the bullets. “Great, I can’t move. If I do, I’ll be killed.” Rock thought, trying his best to stay up with the constant barrage of bullets attacking him. Realizing that Rock was unable to move, Wing decided to act. “Stay here, Alexis.” Wing said as he pulled out a handful of rings from his backpack and ran at one of the mechs. Once in range, Wing threw the rings at the mech, exploding on contact. Unfortunately, one of the other mechs noticed this and turned around to face Wing. “Uh...hi?” Wing said nervously. Just as the mech was about to shoot Wing, a young voice screeched from the side. “Don’t you dare touch him!” Alexis yelled. Alexis curled Lucky into a ball and threw the little chao with impressive strength. Lucky crashed straight through the mechs chest armor, destroying it. With the destruction of the other two mechs, Rock was able to push back the bullets with less difficulty. “My turn.” Rock said as he charged at the mechs again. Right as he was a few feet away from them, Rock jumped to punch the mechs heads off, completely destroying them.“Wing, are you alright?” Alexis asked. “I’m fine, thanks to you. You were great , Alexis. I never knew you could fight.” Wing said. Alexis blushed at attention she was receiving from Wing, which Rock noticed, and looked down to hide her red face. “Well...um...Blair taught me some things. I just never used them.” Alexis said honestly. “You were amazing.” Wing complimented, making Alexis’s face turn a deeper shade of red, which Rock also noticed, but didn’t say anything. But before they could even have a chance to relax, three new enemies jumped from the trees and landed into front of Team Rock. “And who are you?” Rock question. They didn’t respond. The new enemies were mechs that seemed different then the previous ones. Other then their claws, the three mechs were completely without weapons. One of the mechs was red and looked like Knuckles, another was yellow and looked like Tails, and the last one was tan and looked like Cream. “Something tells me they aren’t the welcoming committee.” Wing said. The three mech jumped into action and drag each one of the teammates away to fight their own battles.Rock was grabbed around the neck and thrown clear across the lake and into the rock wall on the other side. Just as Rock got to his feet, the yellow mech flew down from out of nowhere and kicked Rock clear across the face five feet away. “Not bad, but you’ll have to do better then that.” Rock stated. Rock brought out his drills into view and began to burrow underground. The mech tried to calculate where Rock might attack and came to the conclusion that the echidna guardian would attack directly below it. The yellow mechs activated the jets on its back and took off into the sky. The mech waited for Rock to pop out of the ground and attack, but, to its surprise, Rock never did attack from the ground. All of a sudden, Rock burst out the side of the rock wall and darted towards the mech. “Take this!” Rock shouted before he swung at the mechs head, landing a direct blow. Unfortunately, the mech quickly recovered and grabbed Rock by the wrist, swinging him around until throwing him to he ground.Wing tried to grab the explosive rings in his back pack, but the tan mech grabbed him by the wrist and twisted it behind his back. While Wing winced in pain, the tan mech grabbed the poor hedgehog by his tail and lifted him into the air to twirl him around before throwing him to the wall. “Wing!” Alexis cried for her friend. Alexis tried to run to the injured Wing, but just then, the red mech burst up out of the ground and stood in her path. The mech lifted its hand to show off the spikes on it fists in an attempt to scared the delicate Alexis. Usually, Alexis would be scared out of her wits at the sight of the mech, but her concern for Wing overpowered her fear. “Go little chao, get him!” Alexis called out. “Chao, Chao!” Lucky jumped from behind Alexis’s head to ram itself into the mech, forcing it back into the lake. “Wing, are you all right.” Alexis asked as dropped to his side. “Look out!” Wing shouted suddenly as he dragged her to the ground. The tan mech tried to take a swipe at them, but Wing quickly ducked with Alexis to avoid the attack. Wing tried to reach for his back pack again, but once again, he felt someone grab him by the wrist. He looked back to see the red mech, who was holding the defeated Chao in its claw.The yellow mech landed in front of a large crater next to the lake. In the center of the crater was Rock, who was covered in scratches and had blood dripping from his mouth. “Ok, so you’re a lot tougher then I thought.” Rock said as he wiped the blood away. “All right, bring it!” Rock yelled. Rock was ready to charge at the mech until he felt two objects fall from the sky and land on top of him. Rock got up to see the object were Wing, Alexis, and Cheese. “What happened to you guys?” Rock asked. His question was answered we he saw the other two mech stand next to the yellow mechs. “Oh, now know.” Rock said to himself. The mechs showed off the claws and crouched down to attack until the most unexpected thing happened. A gigantic Alligator jumped up from out of the lake and brought its jaw down to feast on the mechs before turning away. “Didn’t see that coming.” Rock said.Rock, Wing, and Alexis decided to stay in the crater for a few moments, not wanting to take any chances being eaten by the alligator. Once they realized that the alligator was gone, Team Rock began to crawl out of the crater. Rock was already out and Wing was helping Alexis up. “Ok, only one more step.” Wing said as he grabbed hold of Alexis’s hand to help. But when Alexis was finally out of the crater, she accidentally tripped on a rock and landed in Wing arms. When Alexis realized how close she was to Wing, she instantly jumped away and turned to hide the blush on her face, which Rock saw. “Umm...what are we waiting for? Let’s go!” Alexis exclaimed before running off. “What’s with that?” said the confused Wing. “Geez, Wing, for a genius, you’re really dense.” Rock said. “Huh?” Wing blushed. “Never mind. Come on, we better find her before she gets into any trouble.” Rock said before chasing after Alexis.

“AHHH” three high-pitched screams echoed across the forest and Geisy, Kumori, and Sheila dropped down from the trees to land, face first, into the ground. “Ok, that’s the last time we take directions from a group of blind rats at a truck stop in the middle of the desert.” Sheila said as she got back up to her feet and brushed the dirt off her coat. “How was I supposed to know they would give us such bad directions?” Kumori asked. “Hello, they’re blind!” Sheila shouted. “Don’t you yell at me!” Kumori shouted back. “I’ll yell if I want!” Sheila yelled back. Pretty soon, Sheila and Kumori were yelling their heads off, easily forgetting that they were standing on top of Geisy’s back. “Why am I always the one on the bottom?” Geisy asked herself in her head. “(sigh)...all I wanted to do was find Blur, but now we don’t even know where we are. What are we going to do know?” Geisy asked herself. Just then, Alexis ran by, her face completely red, with Rock and Wing trailing close behind. “That’s it!” Geisy exclaimed as she jumped up, knocking Sheila and Kumori off their feet. “What’s with you, Geisy?” Kumori asked while tending to her sore bottom. “I know where to find the guys! Come on!” Geisy yelled before using her super speed to chase after Team Rock.“Alexis, wait!” Wing called out to her. Finally, Alexis stopped running, but only because there was no place left to run thanks to the lake. “Alexis, why do you keep running away from me?” Wing asked, feeling slightly hurt. “Well um...because I...uh...” Alexis said embarrassingly while twiddling with her thumbs. “Come on, Alexis. You can tell me.” Wing said as he grabbed her hand to stop her from her thumb twiddling. The feeling of having her hand in his was a wonderful and embarrassing feeling that made Alexis’s face grow redder by the second. “Hey, Alexis, why is your face red?” Wing asked curiously. “Eep!” Alexis yelped. Alexis quickly covered the embarrassment on her face. “What’s with her?” Wing asked his male companion. “You mean you haven’t figured it out yet?” Rock asked in surprise. “Figure out what?” Wing blushed in a confused manner. “Wow, Wing, you’re almost as dense as I am.” Rock said to his clueless twin brother. Wing raised an eyebrow at his statement and Rock took a moment to realize what he said. “Wait, that didn’t come out right, did it?” Rock asked. “Not at all.” Wing answered. “I didn’t think so.” Rock mumbled.“I finally found you!” a familiar female voice came from behind. The group turned around to find none other then Blur’s girlfriend, Geisy. “Oh no, not her.” Rock complained quietly. “Geisy!” Alexis cheered happily as she ran over to hug her cousin. “Geisy, what are you doing here?” Alexis asked. “We were going to ask you the same thing.” Geisy said. “We?” Rock asked. Geisy looked back to see that her teammates weren’t there. “Uh...I’ll be right back.” Geisy said. She started to run back in the direction she came from until. “Hi, Geisy.” Kumori said from the side. Kumori and Sheila’s sudden appearance caused Geisy to trip on her own two feet and fell, face first, into the ground. “Saw that coming.” Rock commented. “Don’t do that!” Geisy screech to her teammates. “Uh...what are you doing here anyway?” Wing asked. “We’re here so that you’ll tell us were my adorable Blur is.” Geisy said dreamily. “This girl is nuts.” Rock thought. “I wish I could be as bold as Geisy.” Alexis thought. “Sorry, but we don’t know where he is.” Wing said. “Liar!” Geisy yelled. “You know where Blur is and you’re going to tell us.” Geisy said before she jumped at Wing.Alexis and Rock jumped to the side while Wing quickly took to the skies before Geisy even had a chance to attack him. “Oh no, you don’t. You’re not getting away that easily.” Geisy stated. All of a sudden, Geisy turned around and started running in the opposite direction. Then, Geisy used her super speed to run up one of the larger trees until she was high above Wing’ head. “Gotcha now.” Geisy said as she darted towards Wing. Seeing that Geisy was coming fast, Wing quickly reached into his backpack and pulled out a handful of silver rings. Wing threw them at Geisy, who took a whack at them, but instead of exploding, the silver rings burst into a cloud of thick smoke. “Yeah! My smoke rings are a complete success!” Wing cheered. “This is pretty good, Wing. Too bad you forgot one little detail.” Geisy’s voice came from the smoke. Wing wondered what she meant and looked around to see what he might have done wrong. The smoke had covered over a ten foot diameter and it was then Wing realized his mistake. He couldn’t see either. Wing tried to reach for his back, but out of nowhere, Geisy came flying and bashed Wing upside the head with her foot. The hit sent Wing spiraling out of control and landed in the nearby lake.“Wing!” Rock called out to his defeated twin. Rock started running towards to spot where Wing landed in until Kumori stepped in front of him with blinding speed. “Sorry, Rockhead, but you’re fight is with me.” Kumori said with a smirk. “If that’s how it has to be then fine. But don’t think I’m gonna hold back just because you’re a girl.” Rock stated. “Wouldn’t dream of it.” Kumori said. Rock charged recklessly at Kumori, but thanks to her years of combat training, Kumori merely grabbed Rock by the wrist and flipped him over. “Ow.” Rock groaned. Kumori crouched down next to him and said “You’re going to have to do better then that.” All of a sudden, Rock delivered a sudden uppercut to Kumori’s chin and sent her back five feet. “I forgot how strong he was.” Kumori thought. Rock got up and moved in closer for the kill. “This guy has to have some kind of weakness. But what?” Kumori asked herself in mind. Suddenly, and idea popped in her head and she started crying. Seeing Kumori cry, Rock panicked and asked “Are you ok?” “No. You H-hurt me.” Kumori said through the fake tears. “Is there anything I can do?” Rock asked. “Yeah. This.” Kumori said before surprisingly punching Rock away. “You are so gullible.” Kumori laughed remembering that Rok can be fooled one time by any person after an attack.Sheila watched her friends fighting from the side, along with Alexis. “Great, they have all the fun while I get stuck babysitting this kid.” Sheila complained. “I can fight too.” Alexis said. “Don’t take it personally kid, but I seriously doubt that.” Sheila said, turning her attention back to the fights. While Sheila wasn’t looking, Alexis grabbed a hold of Lucky and curled him into a ball. “Excuse me, miss.” Alexis said. “Yeah?” Sheila said as she turned back to Alexis. Big mistake. The moment she turned around, she found a curled up Chaos plowing into her face and sending her flying a few feet away. Sheila caught herself in midair and flipped back to land on her feet. Sheila rubbed her cheek and felt that bruise that was left. “Ok, I’ll admit you have some potential. But is it enough to beat me?” Sheila question as she froze her hand with her icekinetic powers. “Go little Chao, get her!” Alexis ordered and Lucky charged ahead to ram Sheila. Unfortunately, Lucky was easily and she kicked him to the side. “Is that really all you got?” Sheila asked as she turned back to Alexis, who had somehow disappeared. “Where did she go?” Sheila questioned as she scanned the area. She spotted no sign of Alexis until she found a shadow on the ground that didn’t belong to her. Suddenly, Sheila fell to her back and kicked Alexis, who was dive bombing her, away into the lake.Rock, Wing, and Alexis all reached the surface of the water and swan over to reach solid land. “Man, can’t believe we’re losing to these three.” Rock said. “Well, they are strong and crafty. I doesn’t really surprise me that we are losing” Wing said. “What do we do now?” Alexis asked. “I got an idea.” Wing said as he walked over to the girls. “Ready to tell us where Blur is?” Geisy asked. “Yes, but before I do, I want to give you girls something.” Wing said as he reached for his backpack and pulled out three red rings. Rock was watching the whole and looked disapproving. “What does he think he’s doing?” Rock asked irritantly. “Maybe it’s part of his plan.” Alexis guessed. “Or maybe he’s selling us out.” Rock said. “But Wing would never do that.” Alexis stated. “Well I’m not taking any chances.” Rock said as he charged at them. “What are those?” Sheila asked. “Oh, just a little something I call...sleep rings!” Wing exclaimed as he threw the rings on the ground and formed a cloud of yellow dust. Unfortunately, Rock also jumped in when Wing threw the rings.“Oh, man. Rock is really in for it this time.” Wing commented. Wing and Alexis waited for a few minutes before the special dust finally settled. When the dust had clear, everyone, except Rock, was fast asleep. The sight was pretty humorous for Wing and Alexis’s point of view. Geisy and Kumori were cuddling up to their Blur and Mach plushies. “Maybe we should go before Geisy wakes up.” Alexis suggested. “Good idea. Help me with him.” Wing said. Unknown to them, a mysterious figure with blood red eyes was watching and scanned them as they passed by. “Rock Ciail Teleflame, Wing Ian Teleflame, Alexis High Velocity. All data...successfully copied.

Team Chaotix Jr were scouring deep inside the Frog Forest for the next mission: find and rescue the ten captured Chao from their cages. The three decided to split up and free as many chao as they could find. Esper, using his invisibility, has already set five chao free, Vec had set four chao free, and Glee had somehow been able to free at least one chao. Somewhere close to a clearing in the forest, two white fighter mechs were standing guard in front of a scared chao trapped inside a cage. But unknown to them, Esper was scouting from the bushes. “Let’s see. Two guards, both heavily armed, moving at a rotational pattern. Should be simple enough.” Esper said as he made a hand sign and blended in with the environment. Stealthily, Esper ran up to the mechs and placed special tags on their backs and one on the cage before running back to the bushes. “Explosive tags in place. Ready...release” Esper said while performing a hand sign. But what Esper didn’t know was that while he was placing the tags, Glee and Vec were ready to attack from the side. “There it is, Glee, the last one. On the count of three, we jump them.” Vec said. “Ok. Let’s get ’em” Glee cheered.As Esper activated the tags, Vec counted to three and jumped out with Glee. “This can’t be good.” Esper mumbled. The tags exploded just as Vec and Glee were ready to crash down on the mechs. When the smoke cleared, the captured chao was seen flying away happily while Vec and Glee were covered from head to toe in soot. Then, Esper decided to make his presence known. “Hey, Esper, do you know what happened?” Vec said as he shook the soot off. “Well, you and Glee attacked just as I activated my explosive tags.” Esper said coolly, not intimidated by Vec’s angry face. “WHAT!? You mean you the one that nearly blew us up!?” Vec yelled. “The only one at fault is you.” Esper said coolly. Vec’s temper had reached maximum and he made a dive at Esper. But the chameleon quickly jumped to a high tree branch and clung to it with his feet. “Get down here!” Vec yelled, but Esper didn’t reply. While up in the branch, Esper noticed a familiar group not far from them. It was the Babylon Rogues, the thieves they encountered in Soleanna. Esper knew Vec wouldn’t listen, so he jumped off the branch towards the direction of the Rogues. “Get back here!” Vec yelled as he chased after Esper with Glee.Jet, Wave, and Storm had finally been able to get out of the casino theme park and were traveling along the lake in the forest. How they got there is a big mystery, even to them. “Exactly how did we get here?” Storm asked. “I told you, I don’t know.” Wave said irritantly. “I think you better stop before she blows.” Jet whispered to his friend. “Wave was that?” Wave asked. “Nothing.” Jet said quickly. As Wave looked away for a moment, Jet unexpectedly pulled her back and made her fall on top of him. “Don’t you think we’re going a little fast, Jet?” Wave said. “Huh? Ah, hell no! That isn’t why I did that!” Jet exclaimed as he got back up to face the direction Wave was standing. In that exact spot was Esper, who had pulled out one of his giant shuriken. Just then, Vec and Glee had finally caught up to them and caught sight of the Rogues. “Hey, I remember those guys.” Vec said. “They’re the thieves from Soleanna.” Esper explained. “Oh no, not these clowns again.” Wave groaned. “Don’t complain, Wave. Now we can finally have some excitement.” Jet said. “I’ll crush them into dust!” Storm exclaimed. Glee looked between the two teams and cheered. “All right, let rumble!”Jet quickly unleashed his fans and made a run for Vec. Jet jumped to make a strike at Vec, but a large shuriken blocked his path and forced him to fall back. “If you wish to fight a worthy opponent, fight me.” Esper said as he jumped in front of Jet. “HEY!” Vec exclaimed. “All right, you look much more fun to play with anyway.” Jet said as he charged towards Esper. As Jet brought his one of his fans down on the chameleon, Esper jumped to the side and threw three kunai towards him, but were blocked by the metal of Jet’s other fan. “Not bad. I must admit, you are particularly difficult to deal with. I’ll have to take care of that.” Esper said. Esper quickly formed a hand sign and activated his invisibility. Jet started panicking and searched around for any place he might be. “All right, where are you?!” Jet shouted. “Perhaps this would help.” Esper’s voice echoed. Just then, Jet was sent hurtling into the air and was currently hanging upside-down. Jet looked up to see that he was dangling from a rope on a tree branch with Esper sitting at the top. “It looks like you’ll have to do better.” Esper said. Jet merely sent an angry glare and reached to undo the rope.Since Esper had taken they Babylon Rogues leader, Vec was stuck with second best. “Looks like I get stuck with this guy.” Vec said, referring to Storm. “Hope you’re ready for this, because I’m not holding back.” Storm said. “Me neither.” Vec said. The two masculine anthro’s made a run towards each other, which took a while because they were very slow. When they were close, Vec jumped up into the air and clenched his fists together and brought them down on the Albatross. “Luckily enough, Storm slipped and fell on his back so that Vec would miss his target. “You are even more of a klutz then Glee. There’s no way you can win, fatty” Jet and Wave looked in terror at what Vec had just said. “I suggest your friend starts running.” Jet said. “Why?” Esper asked. “Because that word is taboo to Strom.” Jet said. “I’m not fat, I’m big boned!!!” Storm yelled furiously. “Uh oh.” Vec mumbled. Storm ran at Vec at a surprising rate and delivered an uppercut that sent him into the air. While in the air, Storm grabbed Vec by his tail and slammed him into the ground. “I better help.” Esper said as he threw a shuriken towards Storm. The shuriken missed, but completely wrapped around him with the string that was attached it to trap him.“Those guys are idiots. They were both captured by the same person. Hmm...The chameleon seems to be the superior of the three.” Wave thought. Wave tried to formulate a plan in her head on a way to beat Esper until an annoying little voice interrupted. “Hey! Hey!” Wave looked over to see the overly excited Glee bee. “Come on, let’s rumble.” Glee said excitingly. “No, now go away.” Wave shooed him away, but Glee wouldn’t take no for an answer. Glee held a mischievous smile on his face and held his stinger high. “Wave and Esper were staring at each other as the revealed their weapons to each other. Wave was ready to strike until she felt a sharp pain...right on her butt. “YEOW!” Wave screamed as she jumped into the air in pain. Glee was on the ground, laughing his head off, until Wave overshadowed him with burning flames in her eyes. “YOU LITTLE BRAT!” Wave yelled as she began to pound away at the little pest. Before had a chance to cause anymore damage then already did, she felt herself being pulled back and tied to a broken log. Just then, Esper appeared in front of her. “That ought to hold you for a while.” Esper said as he tightened the knot around Wave.It took some doing, but Jet was finally able to free himself from the rope and flipped down to land on his feet. Unfortunately when he did, he found himself completely surround by Team Chaotix Jr. “It’s over, bird brain. Just give up and come along quietly.” Vec said. Jet looked around to find a way out, but found none. “Ooh, shiny.” Glee suddenly said. Jet looked down to see Glee admiring Jet’s ring, then an idea hit him. “Nah, I not one to give up and here’s proof.” Jet said as he lifted the ring into the air. “TIME BREAK!” One second, Jet was trapped and the next, Team Chaotix Jr found themselves tied to a tree by the same rope Esper used. “Uhh...what just happened?” Glee asked. “It would appear that the thieves have got away.” Esper said, noticing the Rogues were no longer in the area. In an impressive show of power, Vec broke the ropes that bound them to the tree. “Now what do we do?” Esper asked. “Maybe we should head back to that castle. We’re bound to find something there.” Vec said. “Yeah, let’s go!” Glee cheered as he flew off into a random direction. “Get back here, you idiot!” Vec yelled as he chased after them bee along side Esper.While no one, not even Esper, noticed, a certain red hedgehog we have all come to know as Rector was watching the whole experience from the bushes. “Those three seem to be on some sort of mission set up by their unknown client. But I find it strange that we would even have the same communication device.” Rector said as he stared at the red walkie-talkie in his hand. “Are you there, Rector? Listen, I have a new mission for...” Eggman was cut off when Rector crushed the walkie-talkie inn his hand. “Sorry, Eggman, but I no longer work for you.” Rector said as he threw the parts into the nearby lake. “Hang Castle. That will be the place where I will find my answers and hopefully...Geisy as well.” Rector said before disappearing into the shadows.

With Geisy, Rock, Jet, and Esper’s teams gone, things were starting to return to normal in the Frog Forest. “AHH!” Ok, scratch that last part. Jasmine was flying over the forest to scout the area for any Chaos Emeralds when an unseen mech flew up behind her and shot her jet pack. Jasmine was sent spiraling out of control and headed for the ground. She was only a foot from the ground when she felt someone grab her foot a save her. Jasmine looked up to find Jac stand atop a large tree holding his hand out to catch her to catch her. “Ugh...idiot.” Jac mumbled under his breath. But while Jac held her up, the mech that had shot her down had stealthily snuck up behind Jac and aimed its gun towards his head. The mech was ready to fire until. “Enemy locked on target! Aim and...Fire!” the next second, the mech that had tried to kill Jac was engulfed in flames and instantly shut down. Jac looked back to see the defeated mech and the one who rescued him, Multis. “I owe you one, Multis.” Jac said. “You were too distracted. Our primary target is Eggman.” Multis stated. “I know, I know.” Jac said lazily.After taking a few moments, Jac had finally placed Jasmine safely on the ground next to Multis before dropping down to join them. "So, find anything.” Jac asked Jasmine. “No! I was a little preoccupied with trying to say alive!” Jasmine exclaimed. “I knew it was a bad idea to trust you to do anything.” Jac said as he jumped up into the tree to disappear from sight. Jasmine was really worried. The Jac she met at Eggman’s base was usually a little annoying maybe, but still. “I don’t understand. He’s been acting this way ever since we left Rail Canyon.” Jasmine said. She then remembers the Sonic like thing she saw after their Jac had defeated Eggman with the power of the Chaos Emerald. “Jasmine...are you all right?” Multis asked. “Yeah, I’m fine” Jasmine replied. Jasmine also thought that Multis was strange as well. Unlike Eggman's other robots, this one seemed to be knowledgeable of the other people’s feelings. In short, she had one strange team. All of a sudden, Jac dropped down from the tree to land in between the two. “What’s up?” Jasmine asked. “I feel three powerful energy sources and a Chaos Emerald not far from here. We have to hurry and find it.” Jac said as he ran down the path followed by Jasmine and Multis.Blur, Mach, and Blitz were running along the forest until the reached a dead end in a clearing in front of a lake. “I guess this isn’t the right way either.” Blur said. “You think?” Mach said irritantly. “Well, well, look who it is. I hope you three aren’t causing any trouble.” The trio of hedgehogs looked to then side and then up to see Team Dark. The most interesting sight to them was Jac himself. “Blur, is that?” Mach asked. “Talk about being full of surprises. It’s been awhile, Jac!” Blur called out to to Jac. “Jac?” Blitz questioned, having never actually met Jac before. “How do they know my name? I never met them. Or have I?” Jac thought. Long time, no see boys! Too bad you had to come all this way for nothing! We'll take it from here!” Jasmine told them. “What did you say?” Mach asked venomously. “Sensors locked on Eggman! Non-complaint intruders will be destroyed!” Multis stated. “Didn’t you know? We have a date with Eggman too.” Blur said. “Well then, it’ll be a date to DIE for.” Jac said. “Hey! You never say that!” Blur exclaimed as he jumped forward, followed by Jac.Jac jumped down from the hill and showed off his fists as he made a run for Blur. Having fought Jac in the past, Blur knew his weak point and curled into his ball form. Jac swiped his fists downwards at the blue ball, but the Blur ball bounced off the ground just in time to avoid the attack. Once in the air, Blur used his homing attack and took a shot at Jac’s head. “So, he’s planning a direct attack at my weak point. There’s no doubt this guy knows something about me.” Jac thought. Jac quickly put a barrier around himself. Blur hit the barrier and was rebounded off of it. “Not bad. Let’s see how you handle this.” Blur said as he began to spin in place. Blur let loose with his attack and used a spin dash on Jac’ barrier. But, to Blur’s surprise, the minute he reaches the barrier, it was frozen solid. “When the heck?!” Blur questioned as he was forced back and uncurled. Jac released the barrier around him and explained what happened. “I have the ability to change the surface of my shield of my own free will. Now, my turn.” Jac said as he extended his foot towards Blur. The attack was unexpected and Blur was slammed into a rock wall by Jac’ foot.Mach was watching Blur’s fight. “Impressive. Able to change his shield’s surface. “He has really improved since the last time.” Mach thought. But his thoughts were interrupted when a series of bullets were head straight for him. Mach quickly back flipped and looked forward to find Multis. “Target: Mach Blazer! Danger level: high! Initiating attack sequence!” Multis stated. “Look’s like I have my own problems to deal with.” Mach said. Multis opened the sides of his arms to reveal his hidden missile storage and shot two missiles at Mach. Mach quickly countered by summoning two Chaos spears to blow the missiles. A cloud of smoke was formed from the destroyed missiles, which proven to be a perfect camouflage for Mach. “Now’s my chance.” Mach thought. Mach formed two small orbs of yellow Chaos into his hands before bring them together into one large arrow. “This is it. CHAOS LAN...” Mach’s attack was halted when Multis burst through the smoke and struck Mach into the ground. “But how?” Mach questioned. “Body temperature is impossible to hide from my thermal vision.” Multis stated.But while Blur and Mach were being pummeled by Jac and Multis, Blitz was faced with his own problems. Blitz was holding his arms up to block each one of Jasmine’s powerful kicks. Normally, Blitz would use his psychokinetic powers to grab hold of his opponent and throw them away, but that would require concentration, which is a pleasure he does not have at the moment. “There has to be someway out of this mess. But what?” Blitz thought. “I suggest you pay attention.” Jasmine said as she suddenly dropped down and swiped Blitz off his feet. Blitz landed on his back and tried to get back up, but Jasmine placed her foot to stop him. “If I were you, I would stay down.” Jasmine said. “If you were me, you would be better looking.” Blitz retorted. That had really ticked Jasmine off. Jasmine lifted her foot and swung it down, but Blitz had caught it with his psychokinetic powers and pushed her away. “Look’s like I win.” Blitz said as he got back to his feet. “I wouldn’t be so sure about that.” Jasmine smirked. Blitz gave off a confused look until Jasmine pointed towards his feet. Blitz looked down and caught sight of a Pink bomb. “Not good!” Blitz exclaimed as he attempted to jump away, but it was too late. The bomb had exploded and Blitz was sent back ten feet.Jac had once more attacked Blur and threw him to the ground. Multis and Jasmine have also succeeded in defeating their opponents and threw them on the ground next to Blur. “Well boys, looks like we win this round.” Jasmine proclaimed. “As if. There is no way we are going to lose to you.” Mach stated. “Too late for that. You have already lost.” Jac said. “Chances of victory at 99.9999999999999999999999999999 percent.” Multis stated. “You see, there’s no way you can beat us.” Jac said. “Well, we’ve done some unusual things in the past and we have always come out on top.” Blitz said, giving Blur and Mach new confidence. “He’s right. We can’t give up that easily.” Blur said. “You just don’t learn, do you?!” Jac exclaimed as he charged at the trio. All of a sudden, Jac stopped in his tracks. Jac was being held in place by Blitz’s psychokinetic powers as Blur began to gather blue Chaos in his right hand. To Blur’s surprise, Mach placed his hand next to Blur’s and added his yellow Chaos. “Mach?” Blur questioned “Two is better then one, right?” Mach said. Blur and Mach formed the chaos into a blue and yellow sphere and charged it towards Jac. “SPEAR WIND!” The two drove the combined attack into Jac' chest, which sent him flying back to his team and crashed them all together into the nearby rock wall, knocking them out.“All right! We won!” Blur cheered. “Don’t get too excited. We’ve just knocked them out. It’s only a matter of time before they wake up.” Mach said, ruining Blur's celebration. “He’s right; we have to get out of here fast.” Blitz said. “I guess you’re right. I don’t want to have to go through that again.” Blur said. “Let’s move, fast.” Mach said as he held out the green Chaos Emerald. Blur and Blitz reached for the emerald as they shouted “CHAOS CONTROL” and vanished. Unknown to them, Eggman was watching just the enitire battle from over the hill. “Looks like you win another round, Blur.” Eggman said. But soon, Eggman melted into a Silver puddle and reformed into a new shape. “Of course, I never expected you to lose to that failure. But don’t worry yourself, Blur. Just one more group and my power shall be at its greatest. Next stop: Hang Castle. CHAOS CONTROL!” and the mysterious figure disappeared in a flash of white light.

After their failure to defeat and capture the skillful thieves, the Babylon Rogues, Team Chaotix were now currently on a mission assigned to them at Hang Castle. “Listen up, here is your next mission.” The voice said over the walkie-talkie. “Hey! I’ve had enough of these stupid missions! When are we gonna get paid?!” Vec screamed until Esper pushed him away. “Vec, calm down. If you yelled at our client, we’ll never get paid for our success.” Esper said calmly, despite Vec exploding temper. “So what do we do now?” Glee asked curiously. “To complete the next part of your mission, you must first find the three keys that are scattered around the castle. Only then will you be able to enter inside.” The voice explained to them. “Sounds simple enough. Ok team, let’s split up.” Vec order. “But bad things happen when people split! Don’t you watch the movies?!” Glee coward behind Esper. “I told you not to let him watch that horror film.” Esper said disappointingly to Vec. “Who cares?! I say we split up and that’s what we’re doing!” Vec snapped before walk away. “Esper shook his head for a moment before jumping away, leaving Glee alone. “Don’t leave me here alone!” Glee cried.“Humph! That Esper. Who does he think he is anyway? I’m the leader of this team and they have to listen to what is say.” Vec grumbled as he walked along the outside wall of the castle. Vec noticed that Esper had been taking charge during their recent missions and the crocodile didn’t like it one bit. He was supposed to be the leader, not some scrawny, ninja-wannabe chameleon. Vec continued to complain about Esper until he caught sight of the key he had been searching for. He thought it was kind of strange that the key would be just standing right there in front of him. Or at least he would if he took the time to think. “Hah! This is just too easy. That’ll show Esper who’s in charge!” Vec cheered as he ran closer to the key. But the minute he reached out to grab it, a large spike came from nowhere and nearly pierced Vec’s heart if he didn’t move away in time. Vec looked up to find that his attacker was a flying yellow mech with a large spike stinger at the end. “You think you can take me? Then bring it on!” Vec challenged and the mech accepted.The mech fired its spike towards Vec, but the muscular croc grabbed the spike with his jaws and crushed it in half. “Hah! You’ll have to do better then that to beat Vec the Crocodile, super genius detective!” Vec boasted as an ugly sunshine banner appeared in the back ground. The yellow mech sweat dropped at the sight. Then, the yellow reloaded its spike and fired once more. But instead of just one spike, the yellow mech fired twelve spikes at once. Vec screamed for his life as he turned to run away, only to crash into the castle wall. The spike came closer to attacking their target and crashed into the wall with Vec, creating a large cloud of dust. When the dust cloud settled, the mech figured Vec was finished and turned to fly away until. “Man, that was too close for comfort.” The mech looked back to see that Vec had just barely avoided the spike that were pinned around him. The mech tried to reload, only to find out that it had run out of ammo. “Out of gas, huh?” Vec said in a sinister manner as he grabbed the mech by its head. “Don’t worry; I’ll help out with that.” Vec said as he held one of the mechs spike into view. Don’t expect to see that mech again.Glee was buzzing around the castle garden at a regularly slow pace, too afraid to make any sudden moves if fear that something might happen like in horror movies. The garden was filled with withering plants and dead, leafless trees that cast sinister shadows on the walls. Glee really wished he didn’t beg Vec to stay up so he could watch, this place reminded him too much of the movie. “H-hello. A-are the any g-ghosts here?” Glee stuttered. Just then, a single red leaf came from out of nowhere and flew past Glee’s face. “AAH! GHOST!” Glee screamed before quickly turning around and flying away as fast as his wings could carry him. Unfortunately, because Glee was in such a panic, he didn’t notice the upcoming wall and crashed into it, face first. The collision shook loose a single brick that dropped down and crashed onto of Glee’s head. Good thing he was wearing a helmet. “Ow.” Glee said as he rubbed his head. He looked to the brick and noticed that a key dropped out along with it. “All right. It’s my lucky day.” Glee said as he flew over to grab the key. But the second he got close to it, a whirlwind of leaves came from nowhere to block the bee’s path. When the whirlwind had disappeared, the only thing standing was a purple mech. “Esper?” Glee mistaken him for Esper since it was too dark to see. The purple mech performed a hand sign and slowly disappeared into the darkness. “Hey! Where’d he go?!” Glee panicked...again. Just then, a single kunai was headed for Glee’s direction, but the hyper bee quickly took to the skies to avoid it. Unknown to him, the kunai was just a distraction to catch Glee’s attention. The purple mech reappeared sticking to the side wall before jumping forward to grab the bee by his wings and smash him into the ground. With Glee unable to move under the mech, the purple mech grabbed another kunai and held it over the bee’s head. The mech brought the Kunai down only to realize that Glee wasn’t there anymore. “Hey! Over here!” Glee waved over from the side. The purple mech ran up to Glee, but noticed that the bee made no attempt to move. “Look down.” Glee said. The mech did as he was told and looked down to find that he was stand on...nothing. Apparently he mindlessly walked off a cliff. Gravity finally took over and pulled the mech down the dark chasm.Esper was walked along the castles inner walls, actually more like walking on the walls, looking intently for the key he was asked to find. “Hmm...This castle is enormous. The probability of actually finding the key is very slim.” Esper said. But, to Esper’s surprise, here found the key standing atop a small pedestal on the ground. Esper jumped down from the wall, but stood far away from the wall incase there might be any traps. “Hmm...Strange. There are no traps at all, but why would Eggman leave something so important unprotected.” Esper said. Esper cautiously walked up to the key and reached out to grab it, when all of a sudden, and metal claw grabbed him by his wrist and flung him to the wall. “Why is it always me?” Esper complained before he fell off and flopped to the floor. Esper took a moment to regain his senses before standing up to face his opponent. Apparently, his opponent was a large, well-build green mech that obviously held tremendous power. “So, I have to get past you in order to get that key. Well, that’s fine by me.” Esper smirked. Esper reached into his cuff and pulls out and extra large shuriken. “One might not be enough. Then I’ll have to try two.” Esper said as he pulled out a second extra large shuriken. Esper jumped into the air and hurled the shuriken towards the mech, but the mech caught one of the shuriken with its claws and the other completely missed. “Gotcha!” Esper exclaimed with a proud smile. All of a sudden, the second shuriken made a swift turn and spun in circles around the mech. It was then that the mech realized that the shuriken was being held by a thin, nearly invisible string and was being controlled by Esper. As Esper pulled back on the string, the mech was forced to topple over as it was caught in Esper’s trap. “Now, to end this.” Esper said he began to form a hand sign. It was just then that the mech found that there special tags on the both of the shuriken wrapped around him “Release.” Esper commanded and the tags exploded. “Too easy.” Esper said as he walked over to the, almost forgotten, key. Esper grabbed the key and turned to leave when the green mech came from out of nowhere jabbed Esper in the face, sending him crashing into the wall.Esper groaned in pain as he slowly sat up to face his opponent. The damage done from the previous attack was shown as chucks of the mechs armor fell off, but it was still standing. Esper tried to stand up, but let out a yelp of pain and fell back down. “I can barely move, meaning I can’t you my weapons.” Esper thought as the mech moved closer. “It looks like I have no choice. I must you my chaos, even though my sensei forbid me. But if I do, I’ll just be more like...My sister.” Esper thought as he remembered his sister’s cold, heartless laugh. As the mech reached for his neck, Esper realized he had no other choice. “Forgive me, sensei.” Esper thought as he started performing a series of hand signs. “Katon: Gōkakyū no Jutsu” Esper took a deep breath and then breathed out a large ball of flames that incinerated the mech. Once the mech was destroyed, Esper collapsed to the floor from exhaustion. “I have to remind myself that I don’t have a lot of chaos energy.” Esper said before fainting.Glee was buzzing around in circles while Vec was waiting around the main entrance door. The two were waiting for Esper and Vec was becoming very impatiant. “AHH...where is that guy. We’ve been waiting for hours!” Vec yelled. “Yeah!” Glee agreed. “Sorry...I’m late.” Vec and Glee looked to the side to find an injured and exhausted Esper. “What happened to you?” Vec asked curiously. “Never mind. let’s just end this mission.” Esper quickly changed the subject and moved towards the entrance. Vec was still suspicious at first, but decided that it wasn’t important. Team Chaotix walked up to the entrance and placed their keys into the locks and opened the entrance wide open. “That was easy enough.” Vec said. Esper was the first to go through, but the second he did, a trap door opened underneath him and caused him to fall inside. “Esper!” Vec and Glee exclaimed simultaneously. “Mwahahaha! Too bad! Let’s see how far you two get without the brains of the team.” Eggman’s voiced echoed through the castle. “What do we do now?” Glee asked. “What do you think, you idiot! He’s always saved us now it’s our turn to save him! Come on, it’s time to rescue Esper!” Vec proclaimed. “Yeah!” Glee cheered.

Vec and Glee opened the doors to the inner castle, being as cautious as they could possibly be. In other words, they were basically crashing into everything they could find inside. Ever since Esper had been captured by Eggman, Vec and Glee were clueless at how to proceed in the current situation. “What do we do now?” Glee asked. “I told you, we’re rescuing Esper, you idiot.” Vec said. “I know, but how do we find him?” Glee asked again. “Well we...uh...Maybe be if we...” Vec had no clue what to do. Esper was usually the one who came up with the plans and he was just the muscle. Glee was hollering with laughter at the sight of Vec’s stupidity. “Vec is dumb! Vec is dumb!” Glee sang, which received him a bonk on the head. “Ow! That hurt!” Glee cried. “This is no time for games! We’re on a serious mission! And if we fail, we’ll never see Esper again!” Vec proclaimed. “But he’s the only one that’s ever nice to me!” Glee cried. “Then stop your blubbering and start looking!” Vec ordered. “Ok.” Glee’s mood instantly changed and buzzed on ahead. “There’s something wrong with that kid.” Vec mumbled before following Glee.As they entered further into the room, they noticed several statues of mechs lined along the wall and many portraits of mechs in between. As they reached the end of the narrow room, they found a dead end wall with a large portrait of a giant mech on the wall. “What kind of person owns a roomful of pictures of robots?” Vec questioned. “These are only a few examples of what you will be seeing when my army invades.” A loud, booming voice echoed through the castle walls. “ALIENS!” Glee screech as he latched himself to Vec’s snout. “Get off me, you idiot!” Vec demanded. “You say that a lot.” Glee stated the obvious. “I remember you two. I remember how you and that accursed echidna and chameleon defeated me. That is not something I am willing to forgive.” The voice said. Suddenly, the statues started to crack and the portraits began to move on their own. Soon, white fighter mech broke out of their portraits and broke out of the statues and turned to face the witless detectives. “Uh oh.” Vec and Glee said simultaneously. The mechs fired their guns, but the two separated and jumped to the sides.Vec landed on his feet and found himself being surrounded by half of the fighter mechs as they aimed their guns at him. “Uh...Can we talk?” Vec pleaded, but the mechs didn’t listen. “Guess not.” Vec said. “HELP ME!” Glee cried as he was being chased around by the other half of the fighter mechs. Weather through good planning or just dumb luck, Glee flew over the group of mechs that surrounded Vec and caused them to collide with each other, making one huge pile. The two groups were caught in each others armor or gears and were unable to move. “Good work, Glee. Leave the rest to me.” Vec said. “Go, Vec!” Glee cheered. Vec jumped as high into the air as he could and dropped down onto the pile of mechs. “Belly flop!” Vec yelled and crushed the mechs under his weight. “Yay! Do it again! Do it again!” Glee demanded with his usual annoying voice. “Cut it out, we need to find Esper.” Vec said. Just then, a loud thud was heard from behind. “What was that?” Vec asked, not really wanting to know the answer.Vec and Glee turned around and watched as the portrait with the giant mech took one step outside its painting. Glee coward behind Vec as the giant mech took one more step to fully escape the portrait. “You have got to be kidding.” Vec complained, as usual. The giant mech raised its fist to transform it into a giant metal ball and threw it at the dense duo. Vec quickly opened his wide jaw to grab the ball, cry a little from the impact, and closed his jaw to crush the ball. “Hah! Beat that!” Vec exclaimed. Just then, the mech raised its other fist to transform it into another metal ball, this time with spike. “Go Vec! I’ll be cheering for you...Way over here!” Glee said from the other side of the room. “Thanks for the support!” Vec yelled sarcastically. The Vec looked back at his opponent and watched as the mech reeled back its hand to throw. Just then, a large shuriken came through the empty portrait and wrapped itself around the mechs arm with thread. “What the?” Vec questioned. Just then, Esper jumped through the portrait holding the thread. “Esper!” Glee exclaimed. Esper smirked as he pulled back on the thread to force the mech to fall on its back.Esper quickly jumped over the giant fallen mech and ran to the rest of his team. “Esper, where were you?” Vec asked. “Trust me, you don’t want to know.” Esper said. “How did you get out?” Charm asked. “Again, trust me, you don’t want to know.” Esper said. “Come on, tell us!” Glee whined. “Alright, fine. Listen.” Esper said. Esper motioned the two to move closer to himm and started whispering in their ears. Vec and Esper had disgusted looks on their faces and jumped back away from Esper. “EWW! That’s nasty!” Vec and Glee said simultaneously. Esper nodded his head in agreement. “But it wasn’t all bad. Take a look at What i have found.” Esper said as he reached behind to pull out the purple chaos emerald. “The chaos emerald!” Glee cheered. “Way to go Esper!” Vec said. Just then, the mech broke free from Esper’s thread and stood back to its mechanical feet. “Get ready!” Esper said as the team moved into their fighting stances. The mech raised its new fists into the air and transformed them into metal balls. Just as the mechs was prepared to attack, the ceil began to shake and fell off for no reason. The rubble landed on the giant mech and crushed it like a can.“Uh...what just happened?” Glee asked, having no idea what caused the ceiling to fall. Vec and Esper were equally confused at what happened. “I happened.” A voice came from inside the rubble. Parts of the rubble started to shift a little before it completely blew off. Now stand in front of the team was the vengeful red hedgehog, Rector Rose. “And who you are?” Esper questioned. “Who I am is of no importance. I hear that you three have been investigating on Eggman; I want to know what you have learned so far.” Rector said. “Sorry, but our investigations are completely confidential.” Vec said. “Yeah, so buzz off!” Glee exclaimed. “A little insect just told me buzz off.” Rector said to himself. “All right, if you won’t tell me, then I’ll just have to beat it out of you.” Rector said. “Just try it!” Vec challenged. “Yeah, just try it!” Glee repeated. “You three have just made your final mistake.” Rector said as he moved into his Taijutsu stance.Vec and Charm attacked at once while Rector reached behind his back to pull out three black balls that Esper quickly caught sight of. “Vec, Glee, watch out!” Esper warned, but it was too late. Rector threw the balls on the ground, which created a thick blanket of black smoke. “Hey! What ‘s going on here?!” Vec exclaimed. “I can’t see!” Glee cried. “Let me help” “Oh, thank...AHH!” Glee screamed as Rector appeared right in front of him. Rector pulled back him hand and crashed his palm into Glee’s small chest, sending him flying out of the smoke and into Esper’s hands. “Glee, are you all right?” Esper asked. “I don’t want to go to school today, mommy.” Glee said in a daze before fainting. “He’s fine.” Esper said. “Hey what’s going on out there?!” Vec shouted. “Gotcha now!” Rector appeared behind Vec. “Thousand years of death!” There was a short pause before Vec jumped out of the smoke holding his behind, screaming in pain. “That was just a simple poke in the butt. Just who is this wierd guy?” Esper thought as his left eye twitch in disturbance.Rector walked out of the smoke casually with a large grin on his face. “So, ready to give up?” Rector mocked. “Not In the least.” Esper said as he threw Glee away. “HEY!” Glee exclaimed. Esper quickly reached into his cuffs and threw a series of kunai in Rector’s direction. As the kunai came closer, Rector swiftly pulled out a long needle and blocked everyone of the kunai. A few seconds after, Esper came out of nowhere and swung at Rector with a kunai, which Rector block with a the needle. “Hey, you’re not half bad.” Rector said. “I see you use needles. Most likely used to aim for my pressure points, right?” Esper guessed. “Wow, fast and smart. You’re family must be proud. Too bad it has to end here.” Rector said with a grin. Esper looked confused until Rector swiftly pulled out another needle with his free hand and threw it at Esper’s left ankle. Esper yelped in pain before Rector kneed him in the gut and delivered a mighty punch to the face that sent him back a few feet.Esper tried to get up, but fell back down on his butt in pain. Esper pulled out the needle from his ankle just as Rector came up to him. “Look’s like I win. Now, tell me everything you know.” Rector demanded. “Never.” Esper refused. “I didn’t want to do this, but you left me no choice.” Rector said as he made an attempt to reach for another needle. But before he could reach one, Vec came from nowhere and trapped Rector in his mouth. “Hey! Let me out!” Rector said as he continually tried to punch his way out. “You heard him.” Esper said. “Cannonball!” Glee screamed as he charged at Vec’s gut, forcing the croc to spit Rector out. The force sent the red hedgehog flying through the roof of the whole castle and land directly over the nearby hills. “Well, he’s gone.” Vec stated. “We should probably get out of here before he comes back.” Esper said as Vec lifted him on his back. But as Team Chaotix made their way to the exit, a pair of blood red eyes was watch and scanned them. “Esper the Chameleon, Glee Bee, Vec the Crocodile. All data... successfully copied. Now my power is at its greatest. It is time to begin my reign!”Unknowingly, the six teams were all resting in the same area, resting from all the battles they faced. Just then, the sun suddenly went out, which quickly caught the attention of the heroes. They looked to the sky and all gasped in shock at what they were seeing. “What is that?” Blur, Blair, Jac, Jet, Rock, and Esper unknowingly said simultaneously. In the sky was a large feet of airborne battleships that would easily put the Egg-Carrier to shame. Amongst the fleet of red battle ships was a blue battleship that held a tower of Eggman where he most likely stayed. “Mwahahaha. Gaze and cower at the sight before you, simpletons. Today begins the day of a new rule. MY rule!” Eggman said over the loudspeakers. “Look’s like break is over. Come guys, time to rock and roll.” Blur said to his teammates, not knowing that the other teams were thinking the exact same thing.

“Mwahaha. You fools must have a death wish. Witness this invincible battleship fleet, built by the hands of a genius. It’s power, unmatched, throughout the universe.” Eggman said over his battleships loudspeakers. Just then, Blur, Mach, and Blitz appeared on one of the red battleships through the power of chaos control. “It looks as if we have made it to our destination.” Mach said. “Not exactly.” Blitz said. Blur and Mach looked confused until Blitz pointed above them. Just above their heads was their original target, the blue battleship. “Aw, man. You’ve got to be kidding me.” Blur complained, like he usually does. “I don’t understand. Why did chaos control send us directly to there?” Mach questioned. Blur and Mach continued to ponder this until Blitz suddenly pulled them back. “What’s the deal Blitz?” Blur asked. “That.” Blitz said as he pointed ahead. Blitz had just saved them from being shot by one of the many hundred mechs that were lined up to attack. “All right, Eggman, let’s get this party started.” Blur said eagerly.As the army of mech took aim to fire, Blur recklessly charged ahead. The white fighter mechs instantly took the front line and fired on the blue blur the minute he attacked. Blur jumped to the side and leaned against one of the giant mechs with a bored expression on his faced. “(Yawn) Come on, you can do better then that.” Blur said mockingly. The mech instantly took up the challenge and fired at the blur with full force. Blur made no attempt to run away, but instead, he side stepped to stand behind the giant mech. With the giant mech in their line of fire, the fighter mechs accidentally shot the giant mech until it shut down. Blur held a mischievous smile of his face as he gave the mech a light tap. The giant mech fell over and crushed the fighter mech that were trying to run away. “You would think Egg-butt would learn that nothing can catch me.” Blur said arrogantly. Just then, Blur was shoved in the back and flung ten feet away. Blur turned back to see the blue mech he met at the white palace. “Huh, so your back. No worries, this time I’m prepared.” Blur said. Blur held out his hand to form a sphere of blue chaos, just as the blue mech attacked. “CHAOS WIND!” Blur shouted as he plunged the attack in the mechs attack. The blue sphere shredded the blue mechs armor and core and flung it back over the edge of the battleship.Mach was merely walking up to the mechs as the continually fired at him. Unknown to anyone, even Blur, Mach was moving at a pace so fast that it looked like the bullets passed through him. When Mach was only a few feet from them, he instantaneously summoned a large number of yellow arrows around him. “Now to end this pathetic excuse for an army. CHAOS SPEAR!” Mach commanded. The arrows lunged themselves at the mech army and pieced through their armor like paper. “This is too easy.” Mach said suspiciously. All of a sudden Mach felt himself being kicked in the chest and knocked back a few feet. Mach sat up to see the black mech from the battle at the white palace. “You again. I’ll make sure to finish you for good this time.” Mach said coolly before jumping back to his feet. The black mech charged at Mach recklessly, which left it wide open for an attack. As the mech swung its claw towards Mach, the ebony hedgehog suddenly dropped down to deliver a strong uppercut and throw the mech into the air. While in the air, Mach suddenly appeared behind the mech and kicked it in so many random directions at an extremely fast pace. Mach decided to end the mechs suffering and delivered the final blow downwards to crush it against the steel floor.Because Blur and Mach had already taken out most of the mechs, Blitz was left with only ten mechs. “They always leave me with the scrapes.” Blitz complained. The mechs raised their guns and fired at the psychic hedgehog. Blitz hardly put any effort into blocking such a pathetic attack and simple formed a psychic barrier around him. “This is disappointing. I was really hoping for a challenge.” Blitz said. Blitz then focused on his barrier and expanded it so fast then it sent the mechs flying over the edge of the battleship. Blitz sighed in disappointment, just before he was pulled back by one of his quills and thrown towards the wall. Blitz caught himself just before he hit the wall and faced off against the grey mech from the white palace battle. “You again. At least I’ll have some fun.” Blitz grinned. The grey mech responded by picking up several scattered parts with an unknown power and hurtled them towards Blitz’s direction. Blitz instantly caught the parts with his Psychokinetic powers and threw them aside. Blitz gathered as small fraction of chaos energy into his right hand, which was a lot considering he had more chaos then Mach, and released into to form a spiral of energy. The spiral cut through the mech and left it in pieces scattered on the floor. With all the mechs properly disposed of, Blur, Mach, and Blitz met up in the center of their newly created junkyard. “Yeah! That was too easy!” Blur said excitingly. “Your right, it was too easy. I think Eggman might be setting us up.” Mach said suspiciously. “For what?” Blitz asked. “For this!” All of a sudden, a gigantic lance landed in the middle of the trio, which they jumped back to avoid. The three looked up to see Eggman inside his newest invention, a giant golden robot with a lance and shield as it weapons. “All right, Eggman, make it easy on yourself and give up!” Blur exclaimed. “There is no way you can stand up against our power.” Mach proclaimed. “Your plans end here!” Blitz exclaimed. “Enough of this! Blur, Mach, Blitz, your time is up!” Eggman proclaimed as he activated his newest creation, the Egg-Emperor.As usual, Blur was the first to take a shot at Eggman by jumping into the air and curling into a ball to use his homing attack. But, Eggman predicted this and raised the Egg-Emperor’s shield to bounce Blur back. The rebound caused Blur to intentionally uncurl, which Eggman took the opportunity to stab Blur with his lance. Just as the lance was about to hit its target, Blitz quickly used his Psychokinetic power to pull Blur back before being killed. Blitz caught Blur and used his psychokinetic powers to pull out one of the turrets and raise it into the air. Unknown to Eggman, the turret was only a distraction so that Mach could sneak up from behind. Mach held out his hands to summon up as much chaos energy into both his hands before bringing them together to form a large yellow arrow. Mach nodded his head to signal Blitz and both the hedgehogs launched their attacks at once. “CHAOS LANCE!” unfortunately, Eggman somehow predicted the attack and destroyed the turret with his lance and block the chaos lance with his shield. The Egg-Emperor to swiftly turned around and slammed Mach with the side of its lance to knock him back with his teammates.“Ok, now what?” Blur asked. “We have no choice; we have to use our new technique.” Mach said. “But we haven’t tested it yet!” Blitz exclaimed. “I think now would be the perfect time for that.” Mach said as he noted the Egg-Emperor moving closer to them. “All right, get ready.” Blitz said. Blur and Mach nodded their head just before curling into their ball forms. Blitz used his psychokinetic powers to lift the two off the ground and hold them together, one on top of the other. “Whatever it is your planning, it won’t work. Get ready to die!” Eggman exclaimed. The Egg-Emperor suddenly swung its lance to throw a blade of energy towards them. “It now or never.” Blitz thought. Blitz gather half of his chaos in between his hand and lunged it at hedgehog balls “DOUBLE OVERDRIVE!” the three shouted as one. Blur and Mach were spinning in a simultaneous motion to create a large blue and black ball. The hedgehog’s attack crashed through the Egg-Emperor’s attack like it was nothing. “What?!” Eggman exclaimed, just as both hedgehogs crashed into his newest invention. The force of the attack sliced through the Egg-Emperor’s core, which created a large explosion that engulfed the whole battleship.The Egg-Emperor’s destruction created a chain reaction that destroyed many of the surrounding battleships. But on the unharmed blue battleship. Blur, Mach, and Blitz appeared in a flash of light created by the power of chaos control. “Man, that was cutting it a little close, don’t you think?” Blitz said. “Nah, not really.” Blur said. “C'mon, tell me you weren't scared? If it weren't for us, you wouldn't of had a chance.” Mach said with a smirk. “Yeah, you’re right. Thanks Blitz.” Blur said. “No problem.” Blitz responded. “You too, pal.” Blur said. Hey, what are brothers for?” Mach said. The two rivaling hedgehog looked at each other for a moment and bashed their knuckles together. “Blur!” “Mach!!!” a sweet voice and an angry voice could be heard. The angry voice sent chills down Mach’s spine. “Please tell me it isn’t who I think it is.” Mach begged. The duo looked over to see a joyful Geisy and a ticked off Kumori. “Sorry, Blitz, gotta run!” Blur said as he and Mach attempted to escape their female counter parts. “Blur, what about our date!” Geisy called. “Get back here, Mach!” Kumori shouted. Blitz laughed and said “Some things never change.” But, unknown to them; Silver ooze escaped from the remains of the Egg-Emperor and flew towards the battleship with Blur and the others.

“Mwahaha. You fools must have a death wish. Witness this invincible battleship fleet, built by the hands of a genius. It’s power, unmatched, throughout the universe.” Eggman said over his battleships loudspeakers. Unknown to him, Team Dark was listening from one of the red battleships and disagreed with the mad doctor. “All right, Eggman, it’s time we settle things! Today...I find out who I truly am!” Jac exclaimed and ran off ahead of the rest of his team. “Jac! Ugh...why is he like this?” Jasmine questioned. “Primary mission is search and destroy Eggman! Do not forget!” Multis stated again. “I know, I know, but the least we can do is help Jac sort things out. He must be very confused now more then ever.” Jasmine said. Multis somehow understood what Jasmine was saying and feeling, but before he could say anything, a large explosion suddenly erupted not far from them and Jac fell from the sky in front. “Jac, what happened!?” Jasmine asked while helping Jac back to his feet. “That.” Jac said while pointing forward. Hundreds of mechs were making their way towards Team Dark and Multis was already prepared to fight. “Initiating attack mode!” Multis stated. “All right, let’s show Eggman what the three of us can really do.” Jac said.As expected, Jac was the first to charge recklessly into battle. The fighter mechs wasted no time in countering and fired the guns aimlessly at Jac. The second he caught sight of the bullets, Jac fired Nexus Purge to cut through one of the mechs. The other mechs quickly jumped back to get a better aim on Jac, but Jac quickly counted by creating several long spikes by usin Nexus Quake to slice through the mechs chest armor and obliterate their cores. “That takes care of those scrap piles.” Jac said. All of a sudden, Jac dropped down to the floor just in time to avoid the jet of water that was aimed at the back of his head. Jac quickly jumped back up and turned around to face the same blue mech from Rail Canyon. “You again. Don’t you know when to stay down?” Jac groaned. The blue mech answered by holding out its hands and fired a jet of water. Jac made no effort to avoid it, but instead, held out his hand to stop the water in midair. “I believe this is yours.” Jac said. And with a flick of his finger, the jet of water turned the other direction and drilled itself into the blue mach’s core.Jasmine soared through the air, swerving around to avoid the enemy fire aimed at her. “Come...on. Give...a girl...a break.” Jasmine stressed out while barely dodging the bullets. Finally, one mech was able to shoot her jet Pack and cause her to lose control. Jasmine fell hard on the cold steel floor, instantly surrounded by the fighter mechs. As the mech prepared to fire, but for some reason, Jasmine only smirked at their attempts. “Bye-bye.” Jasmine said. The mechs heard a beeping sound come from their feet and looked down to catch the sight of Jasmine’s bombs. “Uh oh” the mechs said before the bombs exploded in their faces. “Let this be a lesson to ya. Never mess with a gorgeous girl like me.” Jasmine inflated her ego even further. Just then, Jasmine’s ultra sensitive ears heard a whooshing sound from behind and jumped to the side in time to avoid the kick white mech she met at Rail Canyon as its foot crashed through the steel wall. “That has too hurt.” Jasmine cringed. The mech pulled its leg out of the wall and turned to face Jasmine. The mech swung its leg at Jasmine, but she jumped into the air and spun at a rapid pace to use her signature attack. “SCREW KICK!” Jasmine’s attack nailed a direct hit and knocked the mechs head clean off.Unlike his other comrades, Multis had not trouble dealing with the enemy mechs. Multis simply walked up to the mech because their bullets keep bouncing off his strong, thick armor. “Enemy threat level: none! Engaging primary attack sequence!” Multis stated. Multis retracted his hands to replace them with his signature plasma lasers. “Eradicate all enemy threats!” Multis exclaimed. Multis let all loose as he began firing rapidly and randomly. The fighter mechs stood no chance and were easily crushed. “Secondary mission: complete!” Multis stated. Just then, Multis felt himself being lifted into the air from behind and was thrown off the edge of the battleship. Luckily, Multis used his tails to lift himself back onto the ship. It turned out that the one that had thrown him was the giant red mech from Rail Canyon. “Enemy confirmed! Scanning for weakness!” Multis stated. Multis just stood there, leaving a wide opening for the enemy mech. The mech pulled out a large machine gun and fired it on Multis, but the copies attack proved to be insufficient against Multis. “Primary weakness found!” Multis stated as he lifted his Plasma Lasers. Multis fired at the mechs ankles, which collapsed under the pressure, ultimately defeating it.Jac was finishing off the last of the enemy mechs when Jasmine dropped down next to him and Multis casually stood next to him. “Well, that probably could have gone better.” Jasmine said. “Yeah, but where’s the fun in playing safe?” Jac joked. Jasmine was happy to hear that Jac was starting to return to his old personality. A little more and he would be back to the way he was the first time she met him. “Eggman signature located!” Multis suddenly said. “Where?” Jac questioned. All of a sudden, the floor beneath them blew open to create a large hole. Luckily, the trio moved away before they fell in. From within the hole came a large black, mechanical claw made its way out, followed by the rest of its body. This new creature took the shape of a large black wolf machine with Eggman sitting at the head of it. “Eggman, the time has finally come that I defeat you!” Jac exclaimed. “You won’t get away this time!” Jasmine shouted. “Primary target: Eggman! Prepare to eradicate!” Multis stated. “Enough of this! Jac, Jasmine, Multis, your time is up!” Eggman proclaimed as he activated his newest invention, the Egg-Cerberus, and the battle begins.The Egg-Cerberus pounced on the team; but Jac and Jasmine were able to dodge it easily. But because of his heavy body, Multis was to slow to move and was now caught between the Egg-Cerberus’ metal-spiked teeth. “Multis!” Jasmine cried out before jumping in to help her friend. Jasmine flew up into the air and performed her signature technique, “SCREW KICK”, aimed to smash the Egg-Cerberus’ red eye. The Egg-Cerberus gave off a mechanized howl before throwing Multis in Jasmine’s direction. Jasmine was hit by Multis and forced down into the floor by the weight of the machine. “Ok, that hurt.” Jasmine commented. Jac had completely ignored his teammate’s situation and had snuck up behind Eggman by running along the Egg-Cerberus back. But because of the because of the broken eye it received from Jasmine, the Egg-Cerberus was jumping around wildly, making it harder for Jac to walk around. “Can’t make this any easier, can he?” Jac asked sarcastically. Unfortunately, Jac complaining alerted Eggman of his presence as the mad doctor turned back to him. “Uh oh.” Jac said. The Egg-Cerberus gave a mighty leap that knocked Jac off its back and landed with Jasmine and Multis.“Ok, so apparently that’s not going to work.” Jac said as he rubbed his throbbing head. “So what do we do now?” Jasmine asked. “I’m all out of ideas.” Jac said. “There is one alternative solution.” Multis said. “You mean you have an idea on how to defeat Eggman. “Affirmative!” Multis replied. As Multis discussed his plan with the others, Eggman decided to charge in with the Egg-Cerberus. “It ends now, you fools!” Eggman exclaimed. “I just hope this works.” Jac said as he held up the white Chaos emerald. “It’s not like we have any other choice.” Jasmine said as she used all he might to lift the heavy Multis a few feet off the ground. The Chaos emerald glowed in Jac’ hand and the god of destruction transferred the energy into Multis. Multis retracted his claws, but did not replace them like he usually did. “Prepare for attack!” Multis stated. The Egg-Cerberus came closer and closer until. “3...2...1...FIRE!” Multis exclaimed. “JAC ATTACK!” The three shouted as one. Multis unleashed a devastating blast from his arms that completely engulfed the Egg-Cerberus within it flames.Jac, Jasmine, and Multis gathered around what had remained of the Egg-Cerberus and all eyes were on Eggman crippled body. After only a few seconds, Eggman’s body had dissolved into a puddle of silver ooze. “Eggman target, completely destroyed!” Multis stated. Meanwhile, Jasmine snuck away from the rest of the group to search for Eggman’s treasure. Jac confident in what she was going to find, but did nothing to stop her. He figured it would be best for her to find out for herself. “I found it; Eggman’s treasure storage.” Jasmine said joyously as she walked up to the metal door. But the minute she attempted to open it, the doors flew open to reveal the Babylon Rogues. “Wha...What are you doing here!” Jasmine questioned. “None of your business!” Storm exclaimed. “Listen, if you looking for treasure, don’t bother looking in here. The only thing in there is clones of Sonic.” Jet said before walking away with the rest of the Rogues. “Clones? Yeah, right.” Jasmine said not believing a word he said and walked into the room the Rogues came from. “Now let’s find that treasure...” Jasmine trailed off and gasped at what she saw. Lined along the long hall was over a hundred capsules filled with...Black Sonic clones and there data had Jac’s power in them.Just then, Multis walked in with his claws replaced by his machine guns. “Prepare to destroy immediate area and recover memory unti!” Multis stated when he noticed Jasmine. “Hey, Multis...is it true that...Jac is a...” Jasmine couldn’t bring herself to finish the question, fear for what the answer might be. “It is flase. The Jac we have come to know is indeed a real hedgehog.” Multis answered. Jasmine. “But...” Multis continued and Jasmine’s ears perked up to listen to what he had to say. “Jac still doesn’t have his memory and is incomplete.” Multis said. “How?” Jasmine asked out of curiosity. Multis stop and completely turned his upper body around and said only two words. “His memory has been erased. But even a machine like me can manage to find a heart and he can regain his memory.” Jasmine was happy with what she heard and took the ball from Multis before exiting the room.Jasmine walked back to where they had defeated Eggman and found Jac holding the head of one of the Sonic clones. “So I'm back to square one?” Jac asked with his back still turned to Jasmine. “Yeah.” Jasmine answered. “Well At least I've got you and Multis.” Jac said, surprisingly cheerful, as he threw thead head up and kicked it away. “So what are you going to do now?” Jasmine asked. “I think I’ll go travel the world. What about you? What are you going to do now?” Jac asked. “I think I’ll go looking for that Master Emerald again and probably pay a visit to Rocky.” Jasmine said. “Heh! Some things never change, do they?” Jac joked as he walked away with Jasmine. “Whaddya saying?” Jasmine asked and Jac laughed hard.

“Mwahaha. You fools must have a death wish. Witness this invincible battleship fleet, built by the hands of a genius. It’s power, unmatched, throughout the universe.” Eggman said over his battleships loudspeakers. Meanwhile, Wing was piloting the Hurricane V with Alexis in the backseat and Rock riding along on the wing. “We are closing on Eggman’s main battleship. Prepare for landing.” Wing said. Just as he had said that, the turrets of the battleships turned to face the Hurricnae V and its passengers. “I hope you have a plan, Wing.” Rock said. “I do. Take cover!” Wing sAlexised as the turrets fired. Wing quickly reacted by sending the Hurricnae V downwards to avoid the shots. Unfortunately, one of the turrets nailed a shot in the left wing. “The wing is damaged! Prepare for a crash landing!” Wing exclaimed. The Hurricnae V crashed onto one of the battleships, but luckily no one was hurt. “Everyone all right?” Rock asked. “Yeah, I’m fine.” Wing said as he jumped out of his seat. Wing held his hand out to help Alexis out, but she clumsily tripped on the seat and fell into Wing open arms. Alexis’s face turned beet red for a moment before Rock interrupted. “Uh...guys?” Rock said. The group turned to see an army of mechs stampeding their way. “Alright, time for a little fun.” Rock said with a smirk.The white fighter mechs raised their guns and fired at the trio. Wing pushes Alexis and himself away while Rock reached behind to pull out his drills. Rock quickly slipped them on and raised them in front of his body to block the bullets aimed at him. “Hah! As if I’m going to fall for the same trick twice!” Rock exclaimed. All of a sudden, Rock jumps into the air and bashes his fists together to engulf them in flames. “FIRE DUNK!” Rock shouted as he pounded his fist into the floor, which created a shockwave of fire that incinerated the mechs. “And that’s that.” Rock said proudly. Just then, Rock raised the shovel a swung it backwards, just in time to block an incoming attack. His attack was the red mech he encountered from the Frog Forest. “You just don’t know when to stay down.” Rock said before jumping back. The red mech quickly charged at Rock and swung its spike fist left and right. Rock was barely blocking the onslaught. “There has to be a way out of this.” Rock thought. As luck would have it, the red menace accidentally tripped on a broken piece of mech and fell forward. “Gotcha now!” Rock shouted as he plowed his drill straight through the red mechs chest armor.Wing was helping Alexis back to there feet as they watched Rock destroy the mechs with ease. “Are you ok, Alexis?” Wing asked. “Um...Y-yeah, I’m f-fine.” Alexis stuttered for a moment and turned away from Wing to cover the blush on her cheeks. “She has been acting weird lately.” Wing thought about the embarrassed Alexis. All of a sudden, Wing pushed Alexis to the ground while yelling “Look out!” They were lucky enough to be able to avoid the shots that were aimed for their heads. “Maybe it would be a good idea if you stayed down for a little bit longer.” Wing said to Alexis. Wing lifted his small body up into the air to attract the mechs attention. “Yeah, up here!” Wing mockingly shouted. The mechs raised their guns above their heads and fired randomly into the sky. Being over three thousand feet in the air and Wing flying high gave him the advantage. The bullets would always slow down and stop before even reached the hedgehog. “My turn.” Wing said as he grabbed a handful of rings from his back pack. Wing thrusts the rings downward into a circle that surrounded the mech army. On contact with the floor, the rings created a series of explosions that destroyed the mechs.“That was great, Wing!” Alexis cheered from below. Wing looked back and happily responds by giving her a giving her a thumbs up and a smile, which rivaled that of Blur Journey Blazer. Unfortunately, the happy moment didn’t last long. Before you could even blink, Wing was bashed across the head and was plummeting towards the hard battleship floor. “Wing!” Alexis instincts kicked in as she jumped in time to catch Wing before he hit. Wing was still alive, but he was knocked out for the moment. Just then, Wing’s attacker dropped in front of the confused rabbit and turned out to be the tan and yellow mechs from the Frog Forest. Alexis was scared at the sight of them, but realized that she was now the only one who could protect Wing. “Wing...you have always saved me. Now it’s my turn!” Alexis shouted with determination. The mechs took a step forward until Alexis unexpectedly jumped up and kicked the tan mech in the head. The yellow mech was about to claw Alexis until the Chao came from out of nowhere and slapped the mech across the face. “Good one, little chao.” Alexis giggled as she held her faithful chao. Without warning the two mech swiftly jumped at Alexis and swung their claws. Too bad for them, Alexis took off into the air, causing the mechs to miss and rip each others heads off.Rock was assisting Wing back to his feet, who was staring at Alexis in amazement. “Wow.” Wing gasped quietly. As Alexis landed, Wing subconsciously pulled Alexis into a warm, breath-taking hug. Alexis nearly fainted right then and there. Wing quickly realized what he was doing a pulled away as fast as he could, much to Alexis’s disappointment. “Wow, Alexis, you were amazing!” Wing praised. “Really?” Alexis asked embarrassingly as she looked down to hide her blush. “Alexis, why is your face red?” Wing asked out of curiosity. Alexis instantly squealed and covered her face, leaving Wing even more confused. “That kid spends way too much time with Blur.” Rock thought. Without him realizing it, Rock body was wrapped around by, what looked to be, a steel tail. “What in the world!?” Rock questioned. Rock was then hurtled towards Wing and Alexis, who were lucky enough to catch him. Rock looked back to his attacker to find Eggman sitting at the head of a red, mechanical snake. “So you decided to come out of hiding, huh? Big mistake.” Rock said. “It’s over, Eggman!” Wing shouted. “Just give up!” Alexis exclaimed. “Enough of this! Rock, Wing, Alexis, you time is up!” Eggman exclaimed as he activated his newest invention: the Egg-Viper.Rock and his hot headed attitude was, as expected, the first one to attack. The Egg-Viper counteract by swinging its steel tail towards Rock. But thankfully, Rock held up his drills to block the attack. “Hah! You’ll have to do better then that!” Rock exclaimed. “How about this?” Suddenly, the Egg-Vipers tail bent the other way and wrapped itself around Rock body. “That might work.” Rock commented before being thrown away by the Wing. Meanwhile, Wing stealthily snuck up behind the Egg-Viper and opened a hatch to reveal the wiring inside. “Ok, one of these wires has to cut off the power.” Wing said to himself. “Why not try the blue one.” A voice said from behind. “Oh, thanks.” Wing said before realizing what he just said. Wing looked behind to see the viper head with Eggman. “Hello.” Wing said nervously. “Good-bye.” Eggman said as the viper Wing swiped Wing away. “Wing! Ok, now I’m mad!” Alexis screamed. Alexis quickly grabbed the Chao to curl him into a ball and throws him at the viper head. Unfortunately, the blow was only powerful enough to make a dent. “You were saying.” Eggman said. “Uh...bye!” Alexis shout quickly before running away.“Oh, my head.” Rock said as he rubbed his aching head. To make things worse, Wing landed on top of the poor echidna and Alexis tripped to land on top of Wing. “What do we do now? That thing is way too powerful.” Wing said. “I’m glad you see it my way.” The trio looked to come face to face with the Egg-Viper. “Now die!” Eggman exclaimed. The Egg-Viper struck it head down, but the trio quickly jumped away in time to avoid it. “I have one idea, but I have a question to ask you guys.” Rock said. “What?” Alexis asked. “Do you trust me?” Rock asked. I didn’t take long for them to come up with an answer. “With our lives.” Wing said. “Good, now hold on tight.” Rock said. Rock grabbed the top of his two companions and forced them into ball forms. Alexis was slightly scared of what Rock was planning, but knew she could trust him. Then, Rock engulfed the two balls in flames, which surprisingly did not hurt them. “Alright, here we go!” Rock exclaimed as he charged at the Egg-Viper. When he was just up to its head, Rock jumped towards the head and held both of his friends out in front. “ROCK BUSTER!” the three shouted as one. The attack crashed through the vipers head with such extreme force that the Egg-Viper was destroyed in an instant.Rock, Wing, and Alexis all gathered around the wreckage of the Egg-Viper to gaze upon Eggman’s limp form. “Is he...dead?” Alexis asked fearfully. Just then, Eggman’s body transformed into a puddle of silver ooze. “It’s a fake!” Rock exclaimed. “I figured as much.” Wing said, holding the red walkie-talkie he had since the beginning. “What do you mean?” Alexis asked. “Follow me.” Wing said and they did. Unexpectedly, Team Chaotix Jr and Team Rock met up together in front of a large steel door. “What are you doing here?” Glee question. “We could ask you the same thing.” Rock said. “Never mind that. I reprogrammed the walkie-talkie to trace our friend’s whereabouts. It’s coming from inside here.” Wing point to the door. “I have a pretty good idea who it is. Mind lending a hand, Rock?” Vec asked. “No problem.” Rock replied. Rock and Vec proceeded to bang on the steel door until they broke it off it’s hinges. “Dr. Eggman, I presume.” Vector said. To there surprise, the person that had been helping both teams was none other then Eggman. “What in the world!?” Esper exclaimed. “We’ll take it from here.” Vec told Rock. “Um...ok. Come on, guys.” Rock said as he walked away with his team.“I did not see that coming” Rock said, still in shock of discovering Eggman was there helper. “Well, it looks like Eggman was never behind any of this.” Alexis said. “Yeah, I kind of knew that from the beginning.” Wing admitting. “And you never told us!” Rock yelled. “I wasn’t sure at first. I just wanted to make sure.” Wing said in a hurry while cowering behind Alexis. “But if it wasn’t Eggman, then who was it?” Alexis asked. Just then, a squishing sound could be heard from Rock feet. The group looked down to see Rock standing in the puddle of ooze that created the fake Eggman. “EEW!” Wing and Alexis simultaneously said. “Aw, just my luck!” Rock exclaimed. Rock wiped the ooze from his shoe and started to leave. “We still haven’t figured out who it is yet.” Alexis said. “I guess we’ll find out when the time is right.” Rock said. Unknown to them, the silver ooze grew a red eye and watched them leave. “Don’t worry, that time will come very soon.”

“Mwahaha. You fools must have a death wish. Witness this invincible battleship fleet, built by the hands of a genius. It’s power, unmatched, throughout the universe.” Eggman said over his battleships loudspeakers. Unknown to him, Geisy, Sheila, and Kumori somehow found their way up to Eggman’s main blue battleship. “Hmph! Sounds like challenge to me.” Kumori said excitingly. “Hold on, now. Let’s not jump in without thinking. First we should come up with a plan.” Sheila said. “Here’s my plan! Let’s get that bloated Baboon!” Geisy exclaimed. “Geisy, you’re specking my language.” Kumori said. “Charge!” Geisy shouted as she and Kumori rushed recklessly towards Eggman’s tower. “They just don’t listen to reason.” Sheila said to herself before chasing after her team. As Sheila traveled along the many areas of the battleship, she came to realize that she was lost. “Now what do I do?” Sheila asked herself. Just then, Sheila was trampled on from behind and knocked to the ground. Sheila looked up in anger at her attackers, who turned out to be Geisy and Kumori. “What the hell was that for?!” Sheila flared. “Sheila, calm down.” Kumori said. “Give me one good reason why I should!” Sheila yelled. Geisy grabbed Sheila’s head and turned it to the side so she could she the army of mechs chasing them. “Good enough for me.” Sheila said.The white fighter mechs halted a few feet away from the all girl team and raised their guns to fire. As usual, Geisy and Kumori used their super speed, while Sheila used her acrobatic skills to dodge. While still running, Geisy whipped out her mother’s Hammer and dived straight into the mech pile. “I was hoping of using this on Eggman, but you’ll do.” Geisy smirked. Geisy quickly summoned a sphere of red chaos energy in her hand and threw it at the mechs. Eventually, they were nothing but piles of scrape. “I call that one my Chaos Wind Geisy version!” Geisy exclaimed. Unfortunately, Geisy’s celebration was short lived as she was kicked from behind into the wall. She looked back to find the pink mech from Grand Metropolis. “Wanna play, huh? All right, I’ll defeat you and prove my love to Blur!” Geisy yelled. The mech sweat dropped. Geisy reverted to her ball form and started spinning in place. Finally, Geisy gave out and launched herself into the mechs chest to rip right through it.Kumori jumped on the heads of the mechs to cross over to the other side while watching her comrade’s battles. Sheila seemed to be fine, but the thing that caught Kumori’s attention was Geisy and her new attack. Kumori felt angered at the sight of Geisy as she praised herself over her victory. “I can’t believe I’m falling behind my sister! I can’t accept it! I won’t allow it!” Kumori exclaimed. Fueled by her rage, Kumori reverted to her ball form and bounced off on of the mechs to crash into another one. She used the mechs as targets to bounce off one another until only one remained. “I won’t lose to Geisy!” Kumori shouted as she charged towards the final mech. Unfortunately for her, an unknown blur crashed through the back of the mech to nail a hard blow to Kumori’s face. Kumori was blown back a few feet, but quickly got back up to face her opponent. It was the black mech from Grand Metropolis. “You just don’t know when to die!” Kumori shouted. The black mech charged and reeled back its fist to throw a decisive blow to Kumori. Fortunately, Kumori’s hand caught the metal fist and trapped it. the mech threw the other fist, but was also caught as well. The mech was squirming to escape Kumori’s grasp, but was no use. Finally, Kumori pulled her head back and headbutted the mech, which surprisingly shut it down.Sheila was pulling off some amazing and precise back flips to dodge the gun shots until she pushed herself up to land on a metal pipe. “Wow, you guys are really persistent.” Sheila joked. The mechs quickly fired their guns towards Sheila, but the ice hedgehog was not that easy to catch. Sheila swiftly jumped backwards off the pipe to land only a few feet away from the mechs. “I believe it’s my turn now.” Sheila said. Sheila froze her hand with her icekinetic powers and kicked off the ground towards the mech. Sheila twirled into a tornado of ice that cut through the mechs armor like butter. Sheila halted her attack turned back to admire her work. “Not bad, but I could have done better.” Sheila commented. Then all of a sudden, Sheila back flipped just in time to avoid an attack from behind. As soon as Sheila landed she gazed forward to her newest enemy. It was the purple mech from Grand Metropolis. “Ok, I guess I could play with you for awhile.” Sheila said. The purple mech held out its hands to reveal a pair of flamethrowers and used them to engulf Sheila. Just as the mech though it had won, Sheila walked out of the fire unharmed. “You’re joking right?” Sheila said. The mech had no time to reply as Sheila swift jabs a icy fist into its core.With all the mechs properly defeated, Team Charm gathered together at the center of the junk pile. “Hmph! Eggman’s robots are getting wimpier every time.” Geisy commented. “There’s no need to boast.” Kumori glared at Geisy. “Aww, my twin sister’s jealous.” Geisy taunted. “Take that back!” Kumori yelled. Sheila wanted no part of the conversation, knowing that neither one would win. Just then, a sudden blast erupted from behind the girls and sent them flying. “What was that?” Sheila questioned. The three quickly jumped to there feet and looked back to find their answer. The attacker turned out to be none other then Eggman riding at the red of a large, red, mechanical wyvern. “We finally found you Eggman!” Geisy shouted. “This is the end of the line!” Sheila exclaimed. “I’ll turn that piece of junk into scrape!” Kumori yelled. “Enough of this! Geisy, Kumori, Sheila, you’re time is up!” Eggman yelled as he activated his newest creation: the Egg-Wyvern.“You’re going down Eggman.” Geisy said. But Kumori was not very happy with Geisy at the moment. “There is no way I’m going to let her hog all the glory!” Kumori thought. “Out of the way, Geisy! He’s mine!” Kumori exclaimed as she charged recklessly into the battle. “Kumori!” Geisy cried out, but it was in vein. The Egg-Wyvern opened its wing out to fire a series of lasers in Kumori’s direction. Kumori took advantage of her super speed to pass the lasers with ease. Kumori stopped for a moment before jumping up and curling into her ball form towards the Egg-Wyvern. “I’ve got you now!” Kumori screamed. “I don’t think so.” Eggman replied. All of a sudden, the Egg-Wyverns tail came from out of nowhere and swatted Kumori to the far end of the battleship. “Oh no!” Geisy cried. “Geisy, you take care of your sister. I’ll handle things from here.” Sheila said. “Ok, be careful.” Geisy said before she ran off. “Looks like it’s just you and me.” Eggman said as he moved the Egg-Wyvern closer. Sheila froze her hands with her icekinetic powers and said “That’s fine by me.”Kumori pushed herself out of a pile of scrape metal she fell through and groaned from the pain she received. “Ok, probably not my best idea.” Kumori said. “Your right.” Kumori looked up to find Geisy staring down at her. She kneeled down to her and asked “Why did you do that sis?” “Well...it’s because...I wanted to prove I’m better then you.” Kumori admitted. “Better then me?” Geisy repeated. “I saw you’re fight earlier and I guess I was a bit...Jealous.” Kumori said disappointingly. “Sis, we’re a team. No one is better then the other.” Geisy said sympathetically. Kumori felt a little better. Just then, Sheila swooped down from out of nowhere and landed on Kumori. “Why always me?” Kumori asked. “Sorry, Geisy. I couldn’t stop him.” Sheila said. “How right you are.” The trio looked to see the Egg-Wyvern looming over them with its wing out ready to fire. “Any ideas?” Geisy asked. “What about that new move we made?” Kumori said. “Alright, let’s do it.” Geisy said as she whipped out her hammer. Kumori jumped into the air and curled into her ball form just as Sheila used her icekinetic powers to cover her in ice. As Kumori came down, Geisy swung her fist to launch her at the Egg-Wyvern. “ICE SMASH!” the three shouted as one. the icy hedgehog ball crashed into the Egg-Wyvern’s chest and completely incinerated its core.Geisy, Kumori, and Sheila gathered around the smoldering remains of the Egg-Wyvern and looked down at Eggman’s motionless body. “Is he dead?” Geisy asked. “I hope so.” Kumori said. Geisy and Sheila glared at her. “What?!” Kumori questioned. To Sheila and Geisy’s relief, Eggman’s body transformed into a puddle of Slick ooze. “He’s not dead, it was only a copy.” Sheila said. “What?! Are you telling me we had to go through all that just to find out that all we defeated was a stupid copy again?!” Kumori’s temper flared. “Apparently.” Geisy said. “Ugh! What a waste of time!” Kumori exclaimed. “Hey, aren’t those the boys over there?” Sheila suddenly asked. Geisy and Kumori looked to where Sheila was pointing to find that it was indeed Team Hedgehog. “Yay! Now Blur can take me on that date he promised.” Geisy cheered. “And Mach will pay for forgetting our date.” Kumori said as she pounded her fists together. Without warning, Geisy and Kumori raced after the love/victim. “Blur!” Geisy cried “Mach!!!” Kumori screamed. Sheila tried her best to suppress her laughter, but found it to be impossible. Some things never change.

“Mwahaha. You fools must have a death wish. Witness this invincible battleship fleet, built by the hands of a genius. It’s power, unmatched, throughout the universe.” Eggman said over his battleships loudspeakers. But as Eggman continued his blathering, Jet was cautiously piloting the Rogue’s airship through the fleet of battleships. To the Rogue’s surprise, the trio had no difficulty penetrating the fleet’s perimeter. What could Eggman be planning? “Look boss, we made it through without a single scratch.” Storm said. “Keep an eye out, Storm. He’s up to something. I just know it.” Jet warned the albatross. “You know, if I were Eggman, I would probably attack right about...now.” Wave said. And just as Wave said, the battleship turrets instantly fired on the Rouge’s airship. “Abandon ship!” Jet yelled. The Babylon’s airship was blow to pieces by the turrets, but lucky, the Rogue’s quickly jumped out of the ship riding on the Gear, the Wind Rider, the Hurricane, and the Tsunami. “Boss, look!” Storm exclaimed as he pointed forward to an army of mechs waiting for them on one of the red battleships. “That was my father’s ship. I think it’s time for a little payback.” Jet said in a sinister manner.The white fighter mechs raised their guns high and fired randomly in the sky in hopes of hitting one of the thieving birds. Jet scoffed at their attempt and reached behind to pull out his fans. With a single swing, Jet repelled the incoming bullets. Jet landed squarely on one of the mechs head and jumped off the Wind rider to land in the center of the group. “Hah! You guys don’t look so tough!” Jet exclaimed. As the mechs prepared to fire, Jet raised the hand Shahra’s ring and called out “TIME BREAK!” Time instantly froze along with the mech army. “You made a big mistake wrecking my father’s ship.” Jet said before charging in with his fans. Everything went by in a blur. One minute, jet was surrounded, the next minute; he was standing tall on a pile of scrape. “Too easy.” Jet boasted. The celebration was short lived as Jet felt a powerful gust pick him up and shoved his beak into the steel wall. Jet pried his beak from the wall and turned back to face his new enemy. It was the green mech from Casino Park. “Oh, you again.” Jet said in a lazy manner. The green mech raised its hands towards Jet and released a funnel of wind. “You’ve got to be kidding.” Jet smirked. As the wind came closer, Jet quickly started waving his fans like crazy. Jet’s own wind was superior to the mechs and pushed the green machine off the edge of the battleship.As Wave pushed a random mech back with her wrench, she couldn’t help but admire Jet’s battle. “A people wonder why he’s my boyfriend.” Wave said proudly. Wave then dropped down to the ground to avoid the mech swing its gun from behind. She reacted quickly by picking herself up and swung her wrench around to crush the mechs chest and send it flying back into four more mechs. The more she kept trash, the more that would to be attacking. “Don’t these guys ever give up?” Wave questioned. The mech raised their guns. “Guess not.” Wave said. Just as they were ready to shoot, Wave swiftly kicked up the Tsunami and soared straight into the air. Because of her fast thinking, the mech were stupid enough to go through with shooting themselves. “Hah! What idiots!” Wave laughed. Her laughter was cut short when she felt something hard jab her in the gut and flung her back. Wave sat up to lay her eyes on her attacker. It was the purple mech from Casino Park. “(Sigh) they always want to learn the hard way.” Wave mumbled. The purple mech pulled out it mechanical wrench while Wave held out her own. Wave and the mech suddenly charged at each other swung their wrenches towards each other. At first it seem like nothing happened, then all of a sudden, the mechs bodily began to shake roughly before literally falling to pieces.Storm grabbed the head of a random mech and tore it clean off its mechanical shoulders. “Bring it on! Give me everything you got!” Storm exclaimed. One of the mechs raised it gun to Storm, but the mighty albatross gripped the end of the gun shut. Strom grasped the mechs arm and started spinning it around to knock away the surrounding mechs. “I’m bored. This is boring.” Storm whined. “Shut up, Storm!” Wave yelled. “Sorry.” Storm said meekly. The end Storm’s complaining, several more mechs came from nowhere and marched towards him. Just then, Storm grabbed a large pole and used his ripped in straight out of the floor. “Batter up.” Storm said. Storm swung the heavy pole around to bat all the mechs off the battleship. “I’m still bored.” Storm said. But just as Storm turned around, his beak came in contact with a metal fist that sent him close to the edge. Storm looked up to find that the one that hit him was the grey mech from Casino Park. “All right, some fun!” Storm cheered childishly. The grey mech charged at Storm and the albatross was about to do the same, but clumsily tripped over a metal pipe. Not realizing Storm’s mistake, the mech accidentally tripped on Storm hulking body and fell over the edge of the battleship. “Uh...What happened?” Storm asked confusingly.After properly disposing of the mech army the thieving trio gathered together to celebrate. “All right, we won!” Storm cheered. “Of course. Because I am awesome.” Jet boasted. “Ok, let’s not get ahead of ourselves.” Wave said. “Do think there are anymore left, boss?” Storm asked. “I hope so.” Jet said hopefully. “Why do I even bother?” Wave thought. Then all of a sudden, the Babylon’s spine started shivering in fright as the atmosphere’s temperature dropped dramatically. “W-why is it s-so c-c-cold?” Jet asked Wave. “I d-d-don’t k-know.” Wave replied while trying to warm her arms. “Uh...guys.” Storm said, totally unaffected by the temperature drop and pointed upwards. It took a while, but Jet and Wave soon adapted to the temperature and looked up to where Storm was pointing. Soon their eyes caught sight of a large skeletal machine covered in black cloth that floated in midair with Eggman piloting it. “Look who it is. Time for some payback!” Jet exclaimed. “Time we taught you a lesson!” Wave shouted. “Hope you’re ready for this!” Storm yelled. “Enough of this. Jet, Wave, Storm, your time is up.” Eggman proclaimed as he activated his newest invention: the Egg-Specter.Not surprisingly, Jet was the first the make an attempt at the Egg-Specter. Jet grabbed his Wind Rider and jumped on to make a speedy start towards the ghostly machine. “I’ve gotcha now.” Jet said as he pulled out his fans. But then, to Jet’s surprise, the Egg-specter held it metal boney hand and fired a blue mist at Jet. Jet thought nothing over a dove straight into the mist. But the minute he came out, Jet was a frozen ice sculpture. “Ok, n-not m-my b-b-best idea.” Jet strained out. “Jet! Storm we have to help him!” Wave exclaimed. “Already on it.” Storm said as he ran over to the frozen Jet. In an attempt to thaw him out, Storm placed his tongue on the jet sculpture, only to have it stuck. “Wave, help!” Storm screeched. Wave slapped her forehead and asked herself “What did I do to deserve this?” “It would seem that I now have the advantage. Time to finish this.” Eggman said as he moved the Egg-Specter closer to Jet and Storm. The two birds were sitting ducks. The Egg-specter attempted to reach for them when all of a sudden, and large bomb-like object dropped in front of Eggman. Acting on instinct, Eggman pulled the Egg-Specters hand to protect him. Nothing happened. When Eggman realized that there was no blast, he removed the Egg-Specters hands to see that the Babylon Rogue’s had disappeared. “Where did they go?” Eggman questioned.Earlier, Wave threw a dud bomb, knowing that Eggman would fall for. This provided the perfect distraction to sneak away with Jet and Storm. “Ok, hold still.” Wave said as she held her wrench high above her head. “A-are y-you sure ab-bout this?” Jet asked. “No.” Wave quickly replied before bring her wrench down. As luck would have it, Wave’s wrench did enough damage to release Jet, but not enough to harm him. Storm still had a piece of ice stuck to his tongue, which he quickly ate. “Hmm, icy.” Storm said. Jet and Wave sweat dropped. “So how are we going to defeat that thing if we can’t even touch it?” Jet asked. Wave thought for a moment. It was true. Even with the Extreme Gear, they were to slow to counter act the Egg-Specters attacks. That’s when it hit her. The Egg-Specter was floating aimlessly around the battleship in search of the Rogue’s “Where are you, you cowards?” Eggman questioned. “Hey! Who are you calling coward?!” Eggman looked over to see an unusual sight. Wave was holding Jet’s legs while Storm swung her around. “Now!” Wave shouted. Storm gave a mighty throw to Eggman as Wave pulled out her wrench. The wrench connected with Jet which sent him fly faster then the eye could see. “HAWK ARROW!” the three shouted as one. Jet changed into a living arrow and pierced through the Egg-Specter’s chest to destroy it.The Babylon Rogue’s gather around the remains of the defeated Egg-Specter to find Eggman’s defeated body. “Do you think he’s ok?” Storm asked. Storm’s question was answered when Eggman’s body reverted to a puddle of Silver ooze. “No doubt this thing was a fake to throw us off.” Jet said. “Hey, guys, look what I found!” Wave called over. Jet and Storm walked over to Wave as she pointed at a steel door. “This has to be where Eggman is holding all his plans.” Wave said. “Then what are we waiting for?” Jet asked before walking through the door. But upon entering, they were met with the shock of seeing over a hundred pods containing Black Sonic clones. “Whoa, what with this?” Jet asked. “They appear to be clones.” Wave said as she read off the computer. “Clones?” Storm asked. “It says here that Eggman took a DNA sample from hedgehogs and created an army of clones. Download complete.” Wave said as she held a small disk she downloaded the data on. They were prepared to leave until the doors swung open to reveal Jasmine. “Wha...What are you doing here!” Rouge questioned. “None of your business!” Storm exclaimed. “Listen, if you looking for treasure, don’t bother looking in here. The only thing in there is clones.” Jet said before walking away with the rest of the Rogues.“I wish we could see the expression on her face when she finds out.” Wave giggled. “Well, it doesn’t matter. We got what we came for and now we can go collect our reward.” Jet said proudly. “Too bad there wasn’t any treasure.” Storm said. “Yeah, it’s a shame. But at least we have this.” Wave said.

“Mwahaha. You fools must have a death wish. Witness this invincible battleship fleet, built by the hands of a genius. It’s power, unmatched, throughout the universe.” Eggman said over his battleships loudspeakers. But unknown to the evil scientist, the almost, but never truly, famous Team Chaotix Jr stealthily made their way onto one of Eggman’s red battleships. “You hear that? Sounds like the old doc wants to play with us.” Vec said. “Yay! Play, play, play!” Glee cheered and clapped. “Focus, you two. We’re on the enemies turf now.” Esper said. “Loosen up a bit, Esper.” Vec said. “Yeah, loosen up.” Glee repeated. “How can you be so relaxed, knowing we are in for a big battle?” Esper questioned. “Come on, what’s the guy gonna do, sit on us?” Vec laughed. “No. Most likely he’ll send an army of robots to stop us.” Esper said. “What makes you say that?” Vec asked. Esper replied by pointing ahead of the battleship. Vec and Glee looked over to see an army of white fighter mechs, just as Esper said. “Now what do we do?” Glee asked. “We’re Team Chaotix Jr. Once we get a job, we finish the job. That’s our policy.” Vec said. “Exactly how many policies do we have?” Esper asked himself in his head.The white fighter mechs raised their guns and fired ferociously to the detective team. Almost instantly, Esper swiftly jumped in front of his comrades to block the bullets with an extra large shuriken. “Maybe I should take over from here.” Esper said. As the mech got ready to fire, Esper performed a hand sign and activated his invisibility. The mechs looked confusingly around the battleship in search of the chameleon ninja until. “Looking for me?” the mechs turned back to see Esper leaning against the wall, smirking. As the mechs turned with their guns aimed for him, Esper performed another hand sign and shouted “Release!” Secretly, Esper had placed special tags on the mechs bodies and was blow to bits. “Too easy.” Esper said. Then all of a sudden, Esper swung his shuriken around to block an attack that was ahead for the back of his head. He looked to see that his new enemy was the purple mech from Hang Castle. “I don’t know who you are, but I will not lose to you.” Esper said. The two pushed each other away, but the mech bounced back and swung its claws. Esper quickly ducked kicked the mech straight up. “Forgive me, sensei.” Esper thought. Esper then vanishes and reappears behind the mech in midair. He wraps his arms around the mechs body and pulls it straight down into the floor, jumping away just inches before reaching to floor.“Wow! Esper is so cool!” Glee exclaimed. “Oh, yeah! Well I’ll show him!” Vec shouted. Vec dived recklessly into the battle and body slammed a few mechs. “Hah! Take that!” Vec exclaimed. What Vec didn’t realize was that he was completely surrounded by mech, all aiming their guns to him. Vec tried to figure a way out of this and then, by some miracle, an idea hit him. “Look, a famous movie star!” Vec shouted. To everyone’s eternal surprise, the mechs actually fell for it. Vec reeled back his head and then blew a gigantic flame from his mouth to incinerate the mechs. “Never mess with Vec, super genius detective.” Vec boasted as the ugly sunshine banner appeared again. Everyone sweat dropped. “He really needs to get rid of that.” Esper thought. All of a sudden, Vec was pushed to the ground and was pinned. The crocodile looked behind him to catch sight of the green mech from Hang Castle. “You know, it never a good idea to mess with a croc.” Vec said. Vec then turned his neck to its limits and opened his jaw over the mechs head before snapping it shut. “Because we always bite back.” Vec said as he spat out the mech head.Glee was continuously cheering and clapping, clearly amused by the battles, that he failed to notice the group of mech behind him. He only realized that the mechs were there when he felt one of their guns to his back. “Uh...hi.” Glee turned and said nervously. Mechs finally unleashed their rampage, only to find their guns were completely empty. “Hah! You can’t hurt me. You can’t hurt me.” Glee sang. The mechs replied by raising their fists to him. “Uh...can we talk?” Glee pleaded. He answer can in the form of the mechs piling on top of him and started to beat him up. “Guess not.” Glee said. Unknown to any of the mechs, Glee snuck under the mechs and watched as they proceeded to beat each other up. Glee laughed at the stupid mechs until a new enemy arrived. The new enemy was the yellow mech from Hang Castle. Glee attitude suddenly change from childish to serious. This was it, the chance to prove what he was made of. Everything came down to the last bout. “Rock, paper, scissors.” Glee called out. Glee chose scissors, while the mech chose paper. “I win!” Glee cheered and the mechs head blew up. Esper sweat dropped. “That has got to be the strangest victory I have ever seen.” Esper thought.After the detective team defeated the mechs, the crazy trio met up in the center of the new junk yard. “Hey, Glee, did you see how I turned those oversize cans into scrape?” Vec asked, waiting to receive praise. But it never came. “Wow, Esper, you were so cool!” Glee cheered. “It was nothing.” Esper said coolly. “He’s stealing my spot light again!” Vec thought angrily. Vec was prepared to kill the cool-headed ninja until a laser came out of nowhere and blasted the trio away a few feet. “What was that?” Vec asked as they got to their feet. Their gaze quickly land on the sight of a large, four-legged, crab-like machine with Eggman sitting at the controls. “Looks like we found him. Alright doc, the game is up!” Vec exclaimed. “You reign of evil ends here!” Esper shouted. “Yeah, you’re going down!” Glee screamed. “Enough of this! Esper, Vec, Glee, you’re time is up!” Eggman said as he activated his newest creation: the Egg-Genesis. “Hey! How come his name is in front of mine!?” Vec questioned. “Now’s not the time, Vec.” Esper said.“All right team, prepare yourselves.” Esper said as he reached for another shuriken. “There is no way I’m letting him hog all the glory.” Vec thought. “Step aside, Esper. Let me show you how it’s done.” Vec shoved Esper away. “You’re not gonna do anything stupid are you?” Esper asked. Vec gave of an odd battle cry and charged at the Egg-Genesis. “Yes, he is.” Esper thought. “Hah! You think I can be defeated that easily?” Eggman said. The Egg-Genesis then opened up several compartments on one of its legs to fire a barrage of missiles. At the sight of missiles, Vec screamed for his life and tried to run away, but missiles already detonated. Vec was throw clear across the area and slammed straight into the steel wall. “Glee, take care of Vec. I’ll handle this.” Esper instructed. “Roger!” Glee saluted. Esper knew that he couldn’t get Close if Eggman knew where he was, so he performed a hand sign to turn himself invisible. “Very clever, Esper. But not clever enough.” Eggman said. Eggman activated the Egg-Genesis’ thermal scanner and traced Esper’s exact location. “Uh oh.” Esper muttered. “Fire!” Eggman commanded. The Egg-Genesis fired a laser in front of Esper and the after shock of the blast flung Esper back to the same wall as Vec.Esper landed face first into the wall and slumped to the ground, much to Vec’s amusement. “Hahaha. Not so tough now, are you.” Vec laughed. “Ugh, well that didn’t work. Now what?” Esper asked. “Now you die.” Eggman said as the Egg-Genesis moved closer to the group. “Well guys, there is only one thing we can do at a time like this. And that is to...sing!” Vec announced. Esper facefaulted into the floor while Glee cheered. “What the hell!” Esper screamed as he picked himself up. “Trust me on this. When have I ever let you down?” Vec asked. “Do you want me to name them periodically or alphabetically?” Esper asked sarcastically. “Do we have any other choice?” Vec asked. “I guess not.” Esper said in defeat. Esper somehow pulled out a samisen (Japanese guitar), Glee pulled out a drum, and Vec somehow got a hold of a microphone stand. “Get ready for...CHAOTIX’S JR RECITAL! La-LA-LA, LA-LA.” Vec sang, terribly. In fact, his sing was so terrible that the Egg-Genesis started to spark. “Self-destruct sequence in 3...2...1. Have a nice day.” The computer said. “Ah phooey.” Eggman said just before the Egg-Genesis blew up. Esper sweat dropped at the sight of the Egg-Genesis’ destruction. “It’s official. Nothing makes sense in this world anymore.” Esper muttered.Vec, Esper, and Glee gathered around the destruction of the Egg-Genesis to see Eggman’s limp body of the floor. “Do you think he is all right?” Glee asked. The young bee’s question was answered when Eggman’s body reverted to a puddle of Silver ooze. “Guess it was a fake after all.” Vec said as he walked away. “What do you mean “After all”?” Esper asked as he chased after the green croc. Unexpectedly, Team Chaotix Jr and Team Rock met up together in front of a large steel door. “What are you doing here?” Glee question. “We could ask you the same thing.” Rock said. “Never mind that. I reprogrammed the walkie-talkie to trace our friend’s whereabouts. It’s coming from inside here.” Wing pointed to the door. “I have a pretty good idea who it is. Mind lending a hand, Rock?” Vec asked. “No problem.” Rock replied. Rock and Vec proceeded to bang on the steel door until they broke it off its hinges. “Dr. Eggman, I presume.” Vec said. To there surprise, the person that had been helping both teams was none other then Eggman. “What in the world!?” Esper exclaimed. “We’ll take it from here.” Vec told Rock. “Um...ok. Come on, guys.” Rock said as he walked away with his team.The trio stood there for a moment and watched their friends leave before their attention returned to Eggman. “You knew it was me all along, didn’t you?” Eggman asked. “It’s all a part of being a good detective.” Vec said. “I never thought I would see the day. Vec is actually being smart.” Esper thought. “Can’t believe we were fooled that easily.” Esper said out loud. “You’re rotten!” Glee exclaimed. “Hey hold on you guys! It's no trick! Besides, I plan on paying you! As soon as I conquer the world, I will PAY you!” Eggman proclaimed. There was a long and awkward silence. “You got a lot of nerve, promising something you never do.” Vec said as he cracked his knuckles. “Wait!” Eggman cried. “Take this mister bad man!” Glee yelled as he attempted to charge at Eggman. “Hold on, Glee. Think about it. If it wasn’t Eggman who was trying to conquer the world, then who?” Esper questioned. Eggman looked to the floor in shame, meaning he had something to do with it. Eggman hesitated for a moment before saying “It was...”At the top of the tower on the blue battleship, the six puddles of ooze came to life and formed together to form one whole being. “The power of The Creator’s data is impressive. To be able to split into separate individual beings. He doesn’t realize what kind of power he holds.” The entity said. The enigma looked down to gaze upon Blair and Kumori chasing Blur and Night all around the battleship. The enigma looked to the side to see the Rector was also there and he looked ready to strike. “Though I must admit, they have become much more powerful since I scanned their data. They were not only able to defeat my machines, but they have also learned to work together and become even stronger. But in the end, it is futile.” The enigma said. The enigma’s blood red eye stared intently at the blue blur below him. “Finally, my revenge will be complete. Today you will perish, Blur, my loathsome copy.” The enigma clutched his fist. The final battle was upon them.